Plainsong music. ) and, by extension, other similar religious chants.
Plainsong music. . ) and, by extension, other similar religious chants. Plainsong, the Gregorian chant (q. Click here from Professor William Renwick’s resources, containing full text and music of all the services of the office for all Sundays, Week-days, Feasts and Fasts of the Year and Saints Days. Plainchant (or plainsong) is the traditional ritual singing of the Western Christian Church that first developed during the earliest centuries of Christianity. The word derives from the 13th-century Latin term cantus planus (“plain song”), referring to the unmeasured rhythm and monophony (single line of melody) of Gregorian chant, as distinguished from the measured. Plainchant/plainsong in the strictest sense describes the following: Sung in free rhythm – not divided into bar-lengths. v. Plainsong or plainchant is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church. Plainsong developed during the earliest centuries of Christianity, influenced possibly by the music of the Jewish synagogue and certainly by the Greek modal system. Plainsong (or Plainchant) is a single melody and has five parts – an intonation which is only sung at the very beginning of the psalm verse; the first reciting note which contains most of the Published twice a year, this journal covers the entire field of plainchant and music as well as book reviews. It encompasses Eastern and Western chant, secular lyric, music theory, palaeography, performance practice, as well as medieval and early renaissance polyphony, both sacred and secular. It represents the first revival of musical notation after knowledge of the ancient Greek system was lost. ppqi ppvygp xtviq slsj fxgs xkeg lzdhgi jgpj dmtrlbj dfw