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Definition of Plainsongs
1. plainsong [n] - See also: plainsong
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plainsongs
Literary usage of Plainsongs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (1879)
"... for the earliest use of the organ was merely to accompany the simple melodies
or plainsongs of the church, and when in later years instrumental music ..."
2. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"But grant, that some of these are no less true than nice points: what do these
unseasonable crotchets and quavers trouble the harmonious plainsongs of our ..."
3. Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville and Poets by Marsden Hartley (1921)
"We have his chants and his anthems and plainsongs to remind us of the one essential,
of how lofty a singer passed down our highroad. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1880)
"... the second of these two causes can have had much influence, for the earliest
use of the organ was merely to accompany the simple melodies or plainsongs ..."
5. Rattapallax by George Dickerson, Michael Graves, Robert Harding, Judith Werner (1999)
"Graham Duncan has published about 400 poems in 125 periodicals, including
Confrontation, Heliotrope, Pegasus, plainsongs, Poem, Potpourri, Rattapallax, ..."
6. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (1879)
"... for the earliest use of the organ was merely to accompany the simple melodies
or plainsongs of the church, and when in later years instrumental music ..."
7. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"But grant, that some of these are no less true than nice points: what do these
unseasonable crotchets and quavers trouble the harmonious plainsongs of our ..."
8. Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville and Poets by Marsden Hartley (1921)
"We have his chants and his anthems and plainsongs to remind us of the one essential,
of how lofty a singer passed down our highroad. ..."
9. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1880)
"... the second of these two causes can have had much influence, for the earliest
use of the organ was merely to accompany the simple melodies or plainsongs ..."
10. Rattapallax by George Dickerson, Michael Graves, Robert Harding, Judith Werner (1999)
"Graham Duncan has published about 400 poems in 125 periodicals, including
Confrontation, Heliotrope, Pegasus, plainsongs, Poem, Potpourri, Rattapallax, ..."
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