Early Music.(a) = neume, n. 1. (b) In Byzantine chant: one of a series of signs indicating a melodic leap of a third or a fifth, ascending or…

In plainsong: a prolonged phrase or group of notes sung to a single syllable, esp. at the end of a melody.

In Church Music. The opening phrase of a plain-song melody, preceding the Reciting-note, and usually sung either by the priest alone, or by one or a…

= antiphon, n. 3. Obs.

Music. An internal cadential formula in the plainchant tone for a psalm, canticle, or responsory; (also) the part of an Anglican chant which lies…

= neume, n. 1.

techn. ‘A short piece of plain-song introduced before a psalm or canticle, to the Tone of which it corresponds, while the words are selected so as…

= reciting note n. at reciting, n. compounds.

Music. Each of the prescribed notes (usually called absolute initials) on which a Plain-song melody may begin in any given mode.

Early Music. In Western plainsong notation: a neume or part of a neume signifying a single note, usually written as a dot.

= mediation, n. 4.