Sentences with word «plainsong»

If we had known anything about chanting in the church of my youth, we would have thought it Catholic and cultish, but that was long before the Benedictine monks of Santo Domingo de Silos released their chart - topping Gregorian plainsong in 1994.

If you have access to them, why be afraid of different instrumentation and contrasting sounds within the same service — southern harmony, Appalachian folk, jazz, African rhythm or Genevan plainsong.

Holloway — I was always trying to persuade him to let us sing more plainsong which he claimed was «dreary».

Exquisite religious frescoes decorate the walls, incense drifts in the air, and every now and then it is possible to hear the sound of devotional plainsong.

I would write spoken word poetry about healing and miracles, about prophets and plainsong, about how good it feels to repent, about open doors and wide tables, about plain wooden chairs in opulent palaces, about dry bones rising up in the valley of death to live again, about singing in the streets and the orderliness of stockinette stitch in hand knits.

My own proposed summary of course lacks the creed's historical freightage and is hardly the sort of thing that may be sung, say to the plainsong Missa de Angelis or Missa Marialis tones!

Gregorian chant is also known as plainchant or plainsong, and is a form of monophonic, unaccompanied singing, which was developed in

An accompanying human narrative voice is a central element in the work, and appears as a plainsong developed with Opera North singers and Music Director Justin Doyle, and is based on The Coal Catechism by William Jasper Nicolls.

Miracles begin with the plainsong of a promise - and sometimes not even fully believed.

Miracles begin with the plainsong of a promise ~ and sometimes not even fully believed.