Word: plainsong
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...Paul's Chapel to hear the Princeton Chapel Choir sing it. Composer Harris had cluttered up the program with his usual pious phrases about American music ("All the materials have been extracted from prototypes of American folk songs"). Some of the new Mass sounded more like monkish Plainsong. But there was plenty of power, freshness and vigor, and surprisingly little of Harris' usual repetitiousness...
...Music of Henry VI and His Circle" is the subject of a lecture which Dom Ansolm Hughes, Secretary-Treasurer of the Plainsong and Mediaeval Society, Nashdom Abbey, England, will deliver under the auspices of the Division of Music tonight...
...Hughes, who is secretary-treasurer of the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society, will lecture under the auspices of the Division of Music on the subject of "The Music of King Henry V. and His Circle...
Singing medieval church music was too much for the irrepressible spirit of these jolly clerics. The austerity and the monotony of plainsong they found a bore. They began by introducing words of their own into the mass the tenor of the new text was more entertaining, if not always reverent. They improvised new parts, every man carrying boldly forward regardless of the incredible cacophony which they produced. Each man bawled out his own part in his own time more or less regardless of his neighbors, trusting to Heaven that he might end with the rest. Words of the mass were...
...reproductions. But considering that the number of Lassus's compositions has been estimated at 1250 and upwards, possible oversights of this kind can be accounted for. Beyond the covers of the book Dr. Davison provides Harvard readers with many interpretations of the motets of the period, and of plainsong of still earlier times, since much of the music used in the Memorial Church has been gleaned from this formulative period in the history of choral music...