Word: plainchant
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...great off-beat joke by the percussion utensils. The Dream of a Witches' Sabbath flaunted its own goodies, notably the raucous way the clarinets, flutes, and bassoons treat the witches' dance tune (a perversion of the Beloved's theme). The brasses' evil parody of the dies Irae plainchant seemed to have more downright nastiness to it than ever before...
...radio performance, the patriotic ballad, "Plainchant for America," was featured by the Crimson Network last night, in a reading by Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, and a rendition of a recording of the entire work...