Early medieval church music was all plain chant, in which the notes had fluid time values.

It treats chiefly of the tonalities of the plain chant, and of counterpoints constructed upon them.

After a brief silence, he voiced his plea in plain chant.

The "Sursum corda" etc. is exactly as in the Roman Rite, though the plain chant is altogether different.

The music was beautiful, closer to ancient plain chant than most Darkovan songs, and there was a quality of isolation in it that drew her.

And Leopold Stokowsky affirmed: "Niño de Marchena has the emotion of the plain chant expressed by a genius interpreter.

He published three works on plain chant:

Chanting for chanting, my dear Planchet; I have remarked that nations prefer singing a merry chant to the plain chant.

Gregorian Chant, an outgrowth of Roman plain chant, strongly influenced both liturgical and secular music during the Middle Ages.

Moral purity is illustrated with plain chant; moments of decadence leap 1,000 years ahead and exploit the music of the honky-tonk.