plainchant's Usage Examples:

In the paroisses Mass, he uses plainchant from the Missa cunctipotens genitor Deus as a cantus firmus in two Kyrie movements and in the first Sanctus.

Mensural notation was employed principally for compositions in the tradition of vocal polyphony, whereas plainchant retained its own, older system of neume notation throughout the period.

in a reduced, four-part counterpoint, with the plainchant melody in the meane part.

Old Roman chant is the liturgical plainchant repertory of the Roman rite of the Early Christian Church.

It is a metrical paraphrase of the O Antiphons, a series of plainchant antiphons attached to the Magnificat at Vespers over the final.

incantational, incentive, plainchant, precentor, recant, recantation, succentor, vaticinate, vaticination, vaticinator cand-, cend- glowing, iridescent Latin candere.

of vocal polyphony, whereas plainchant retained its own, older system of neume notation throughout the period.

The plainchant music, however, was written in neumes which are inherently ambiguous, so no definitive modern version exists.

chanticleer, concent, descant, discant, enchant, enchantment, incantation, incantational, incentive, plainchant, precentor, recant, recantation, succentor †cantō.

Beneventan chant is a liturgical plainchant repertory of the Roman Catholic Church, used primarily in the orbit of the southern Italian ecclesiastical.

composers of the Notre Dame school from 1170 to 1250, replacing the even and unmeasured rhythm of early polyphony and plainchant with patterns based on the metric.

The rhythmic values of ligatures in modal notation had been based on a metric reinterpretation of the ligature neumes used since much earlier in the notation of Gregorian plainchant.