Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot; and, for mine own part, I have not a case of lives: the humour of it is too hot, that is the very plain-song of it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The plain-song is most just: for humours do abound: ❋ Unknown (2004)
This plain-song of love, to use the pretty expression of our forefathers, seemed almost criminal to the devout young girl who went to confession every fortnight. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Beauty combines the many with the one: and plain-song and the _Missa Papae Marcelli_ show us only a few, a very few, of its manifestations. ❋ Various (N/A)
Plains of Abraham, an elevated plain just beyond Quebec to the southwest; the scene of the battle of Quebec. plain-song, a short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day or occasion, recited in one tone. ❋ William H. Elson (N/A)
The only emotion he ever betrayed was caused by the organ music accompanying the hymnal plain-song, and by the pomp of religious ceremony. ❋ Various (N/A)
Out of the selfsame book, with the hymns of the church and the plain-song. ❋ William H. Elson (N/A)
Your pre-Reformation lark sang from "a full stomach," and thanked God it had a constitution to carry it off without affectation: and your nineteenth century lark applying the same code of life, his plain-song is mere happy everyday prose, and not poetry at all as we try to make it out to be. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Neume notation was used mostly in connection with the "plain-song melodies" of the Church, and since the words of these chants were sung as they would be pronounced in reading, the deficiency of the neume system in not expressing definite duration values was not felt. ❋ Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1928)
Do not let us seek it anywhere but in the decorative art of the plain-song singers, in the architectural art of the age of ❋ Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 (1915)
M. Louis Laloy has shown the persistence of certain forms of plain-song in M. Debussy's ❋ Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 (1915)
Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot; and for mine own part, I have not a case of lives: the humour of it is too hot, that is the very plain-song of it. ❋ Unknown (1914)
The plain-song is most just, for humours do abound: Knocks go and come: Gods vassals drop and die; ❋ Unknown (1914)
Originally these striking sentences were rendered to a plain-song melody. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Grégorien (Nov. - Dec., 1907), 48-53, who discusses the authorship and the plain-song melody of the sequence; JOHNER, A New School of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The Latin texts vary both in the arrangement and the wording of the stanzas; and the plain-song and modernized settings also vary not a little. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
A number of hymnals give the melody in plain-song notation, and (theoretically, at least) this would permit the accented syllables of the Latin text to receive an appropriate stress of the voice. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The history of the book forms part of that of the development of plain-song. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
In figured masses the Ite missa est should be sung to the tone of the plain-song mass provided for the occasion. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
