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Plain Song
The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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The name given to the ancient music with which the Church service was rendered. Thus Blunt in the Annotated Prayer-book, speaking of Church music says, "In the remodeling of our English services, the great aim was not to discard, but to utilize the ancient plain song, to adapt it to the translated offices, to restore it to something more of its primitive 'plainness,' to rid it of its modern corruptions, its wearisome ornaments and flourishes so that the Priest's part, on the one hand, might be intelligible and distinct, not veiled in a dense cloud of unmeaning notes, and the people's part made so easy and straightforward as to render their restored participation in the public worship of the Sanctuary at once practicable and pleasurable."
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Miller, William James. Entry for 'Plain Song'. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/acd/p/plain-song.html. 1901.
Miller, William James. Entry for 'Plain Song'. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/acd/p/plain-song.html. 1901.
