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a liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church

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This well-built afternoon programme also includes Elgar's Concert Allegro for piano solo and his Piano Quintet, preceded by the plain-song "Salve Regina" which pervades much of the Quintet's opening movement.

CLASSICAL: Proud history of grand opera; There's something of an Verdi Opera festival on the menu at the moment. Christopher Morley relishes the prospect

Sweelinck's first variation on the plain-song Christe qui lux es et dies is "obviously modelled on" a setting of a different cantus firmus by Bull (p.

The Keyboard Music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Its Style, Significance, and Influence

'Hearing the Fathers at their plain-song made me for the moment forget the war completely', he wrote in Goodbye To All That, 'I half envied (them) their abbey on the hill, and admired their kindness, gentleness and seriousness.

The abbey in exile

No plain-song incipits are given for the Mass movements, not even for the Credo (for which, unlike the Gloria, there was only one tone).

The Complete Works of Robert Carver and Two Anonymous Masses

They plundered their back catalogues for plain-song, blew off the dust, and tarted up covers.

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