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		Plainchant, or chant, is the music of the medieval Christian church.
		As plainchant developed in the West, local traditions emerged in Spain (mozarabic), Ireland (Celtic), France (Gallican), and several in Italy (Milan, Benevento, Ravenna, Rome).
		During the Carolingian renaissance (750-850), one specific form of chant probably elaborated in Rome was introduced throughout Western Europe; it developed and progressively displaced other chants: this is Gregorian chant, which remains the official chant of the Catholic church.
	www.medieval.org /emfaq/beginlst/chant.htm (449 words)

	Plainchant
		Slate - Undoubtedly there were plainchant rockists back in 13 th -century France, thumbing their noses at that god-awful polyphony.
		Plainchant or Plainsong with its single unaccompanied vocal melody is one of the principle examples of monophony.
		PLAINCHANT - Unaccompanied musical recitation of certain liturgical texts with slightly elaborated beginning, ending, and punctuation formulas.
	www.psychicinvestigator.com /kw/hildegard/plainchant.php (237 words)

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		Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the Roman Catholic Church.
		Distinctive regional traditions of Western plainchant arose during this period, notably in the British Isles (Celtic chant), Spain (Mozarabic), Gaul (Gallican), and Italy (Roman, Old Roman, Ambrosian and Beneventan).
		Early plainchant, like much of Western music, is believed to have been distinguished by the use of the diatonic scale.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Gregorian_chant (5932 words)

	ORB -- Introduction to Medieval Music
		The plainchant segment from a passage of organum--preserved in the bottom- most tenor voice--retained the word or syllable with which it was originally associated, but the voice above it, now called the motetus, would have a newly-created text.
		Various combinations of texts could occur: the Latin double motet had two syllabic voices, each with different texts, over a plainchant model; some motets mixed French and Latin; and by the end of the century, two French texts over a plainchant model were common.
		In all cases, the texture of the motet was elaborate, and the words hard to understand, since all of the texts were operating simultaneously.
	people.vanderbilt.edu /~cynthia.cyrus/ORB/orbmusic.htm (4787 words)

	Musical Forms - Plainchant
		Each plainchant family has its distinctive modal idioms; in some repertories (Gregorian-Old Roman, Byzantine, Slavonic, Coptic) the modes are assigned numbers or names.
		There are three melodic styles of chant: syllabic, in which each syllable of text is set to a single note; neumatic, in which two to a dozen notes accompany a syllable; and melismatic, in which single syllables may be sung to dozens of notes.
		The Christian liturgies are divided into the Eucharistic Mass and the Divine Office, and it is the liturgy that determines the musical style of plainchant.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/g_plainchant.html (643 words)

	GREGORIAN CHANT - select resources on plainchant
		We gathered here the information about the places in the internet where you can find the valuable information about the history and performing this kind of plainchant.
		Gregorian Chant is alive and well and still enchanting singers and listeners alike, as it has done for the last 1500 years.
		Singing plainchant is the best way to rescue it from the oblivion of history books and to understand much of the music of our civilisation.
	www.gregorian-chant.info (1520 words)

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