Qwika Toolbar for IE and Firefox users!

Home > English

Searching 21,964,380 articles in 1,158 wikis.
Beta release. Any comments please contact us
Press release (Feb 17): New search engine helps bridge the language gap in Wikipedia
Press release (Apr 4): Qwika search engine now indexes 1158 wikis in 12 languages

Search wikis:

User talk:Ardonik/Summer 2004
... Gregorian chant is a subtype of plainsong/plainchant and not the same thing at all ... major article should be a plainsong or plainchant? Feel free to fix it if you ... preference is plainsong (with a redirect from plainchant), as plainchant and Gregorian Chant are easily confused. To ... the genre renamed to "Gregorian Chant," dismissing "plainchant" as a neologism designed to deflect ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ardonik/Summer_2004 - 107k - Cached - Similar pages

Talk:Maurice Duruflé
... Portuguese composer to continue the use of plainchant in polyphony choral settings (as used by ... Lobo, but both were quoting the original plainchant (or a version of the plainchant, since different versions have existed down the ... and rhythmic borrowings (in Durufle's) from plainchant; and 5. Both works are intimate in ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Maurice_Duruflé - 7k - Cached - Similar pages

Plainsong
... Ambrosian or Mozarabic. For several centuries, different plainchant styles existed concurrently, and standardization on Gregorian ... even in Italy until the 12th century. Plainchant represents the first revival of musical notation ... the Monastic Orders. In the late 1980s, plainchant achieved a certain vogue as music for relaxation, and several recordings of plainchant became "classical chart hits". External links OCM ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainsong - 3k - Cached - Similar pages

Gregorian chant
... chant Gregorian chant is also known as plainchant or plainsong and is a form of ... pre-eminence it deserves. References Kenneth Levy: "Plainchant", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed ... emphasis on musical analysis. David Hiley, Western Plainchant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Excellent encyclopedic ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_chant - 22k - Cached - Similar pages

Mensural notation
... much earlier in the notation of Gregorian plainchant. In modal notation, ligatures had been used ... basic of ligature shapes, those inherited from plainchant, namely the descending clivis and the ascending ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensural_notation - 39k - Cached - Similar pages

Musica ficta
... singing polyphony, but resisted their use in plainchant, while early 14th century theorist Jacques de Liège insisted that notes in plainchant needed to be altered with judicious application ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_ficta - 7k - Cached - Similar pages

Evensong
... extremely high church parishes Evensong may have plainchant substituted for Anglican chant and may conclude ... are set, such as faux bourdons for plainchant. Most cathedrals of the Church of England ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evensong - 8k - Cached - Similar pages

Chorale setting
... change in musical practice in northern Europe. Plainchant, associated with the Catholic church, was largely ... the German chorale texts, and adapted specific plainchant melodies. These chorale tunes were set musically ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorale_setting - 5k - Cached - Similar pages

In Nomine
... around 1520 by John Taverner on the plainchant Gloria Tibi Trinitas. In the Benedictus section ... set in four-part counterpoint with the plainchant melody in the alto. At a time ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Nomine - 3k - Cached - Similar pages

Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 (Monteverdi)
... did not specify a specific set of plainchant antiphons to insert before each psalm and ... building each movement on the traditional Gregorian plainchant for each text, which becomes a cantus ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespro_della_Beata_Vergine_1610_(Monteverdi) - 12k - Cached - Similar pages

 Page:1 2 3 4 5 6 Next >>

Search wikis:


Search: uk de fr ja it nl pt es gr ko zh ru

Try your search on: FactBites (sentence-based)