Sentences with phrase «plainsong in»

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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.

Some musical styles, instead of being flexible or neutral, seem quite specialized in character — something made exceptionally clear by novelist Robertson Davies in The Cunning Man, in which the narrator describes his first encounter with plainsong:

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