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Plainchant
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monophonic vocal music in the medieval church designed to project religious texts
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Gregorian Chant
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monophonic vocal music in the medieval church, designed to project religious texts. So called because it was alleged to have been written mostly by Pope Gregory I, in the late sixth century
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Syllabic
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a style of setting a text to music so that there is one note per syllable
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Melismatic
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a style of setting a text to music so that there is more than one note per syllable
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Melisma
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a syllable of text sung to many notes
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