Definition of "plainchant" []

• See plainsong. (noun)

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• "The beginning of Mass also requires that life that comes from plainchant, and using the propers underscore the relationship between music and the Mass itself."
• "The Psalm, by way of contrast, will be straight plainchant in English, by Arlene Oost-Zinner, while the ordinary will be in Latin."
• "It is a simple choral gradual, that is, sung propers for the choir for the Entrance, Psalm, Offertory, and Communion, all in English, all in plainchant."