Easter: A Seasonal Journey... Paschal Plainchant

Hannah French explores the use of plainchant in today’s Early Music Show, whether we hear it in its original single line as a cantus firmus (the fixed song that anchors a lot of Renaissance polyphony) or whether composers have made a free setting of the plainchant text to carry the transition from the gloom of Lent to the joy of Easter.

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