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Definition of Plain song - 1 dictionary result

plain⋅song

  [pleyn-sawng, -song]
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–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.
Also, plain song.
Also called plainchant (for defs. 1, 2).

Origin:
1505–15; trans. of ML cantus plānus
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