Definitions for plainsong

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plainsong plain·song

Spelling: [pleyn-sawng, -song]

IPA: /ˈpleɪnˌsɔŋ, -ˌsɒŋ/

Plainsong is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 474 anagrams from letters in plainsong (agilnnops).

Definitions for plainsong

noun

1. the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
2. modal liturgical music; Gregorian chant.
3. a cantus firmus or theme chosen for contrapuntal development.
4. any simple and unadorned melody or air.

Origin of plainsong

1505-15; translation of Medieval Latin cantus plānus

Examples for plainsong

Descant in music is the melodious accompaniment to a simple theme, the plainsong or ground.

It is therefore of some interest to find that in 1548 the Master at Giggleswick had a knowledge of plainsong as well as grammar.

And Winchester, too, has all and more than all, the surprise of the plainsong; the better you know it the more you are impressed.

He appears familiar with the plainsong, and has based a symphony and portions of a quartet on Gregorian modes.

There was a chapel in the house, of a High Anglican kind, where vestments and incense were used, and plainsong sung.

Florid music, or all church music that is not plainsong, or its Lutheran equivalent the chorale-melody.