plainchant

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I listen to a fair amount of choral music, from plainchant and organum up through modern and contemporary works.

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Synonym of plainsong.

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noun

Synonym of plainsong.

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noun

Synonym of plainsong.

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I listen to a fair amount of choral music, from plainchant and organum up through modern and contemporary works.

I did the exact same thing with my imageboard, plainchant [1].

I'm interested in monophony and plainchant, i.e.

Bach is awesome, and the man had an awful lot to draw on for the emotion in his music, but he was a long way from kicking off the evolution from plainchant to Messiaen.

Music written a hundred years ago is perfectly readable to modern musicians; music written over about five hundred years ago in plainchant notation is learnable (a reader of modern music can pick it up in well under an hour of study, but won't be able to read it cold); music written over about a thousand years ago, is pretty unreadable without training.

It is also the case in plainchant in the C of E tradition (the "ancient office hymns" as well as the psalm, the Benedicite, the Sanctus and Benedictus, Te Deum etc.).

Nor Baroque, Plainchant, or Twelve Tone.

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It is also the case in plainchant in the C of E tradition (the "ancient office hymns" as well as the psalm, the Benedicite, the Sanctus and Benedictus, Te Deum etc.).