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Plainsong is a novel by Kent Haruf. Set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado , it tells the interlocking stories of some of the inhabitants. The title comes from a type of unadorned music sung in Christian churches, and is a reference to both the Great Plains setting and the simple style of the writing.
Plainsong was the exclusive form of Christian church music until the ninth century, and the introduction of polyphony. [2] The monophonic chants of plainsong have a non-metric rhythm. [3] Their rhythms are generally freer than the metered rhythm of later Western music, and they are sung without musical accompaniment.
Oct 4, 1999 · Plainsong by Kent Haruf Trying to think of one word to describe this book – I would say “Brooding”. After about twenty pages I decided this was a book I needed to read slowly and deliberately. It was a slow burning, moody piece of work which made me feel. For what this book lacks in dialogue, it makes up for in atmosphere, space and ...
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Aug 22, 2000 · Plainsong. Paperback – August 22, 2000. by Kent Haruf (Author) 4.3 6,304 ratings. Book 1 of 3: Plainsong. See all formats and editions. National Book Award Finalist. A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is ...
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Plainsong is the marvelous story of how seven extraordinary members of a tiny prairie community--two dedicated teachers, two young boys wise beyond their years, a pair of wonderfully idiosyncratic rancher brothers and a pregnant high school girl--come together, in the face of great difficulties, to form the most appealing extended family in contemporary fiction.
Oct 18, 2019 · Plainsong (or Plainchant) is a single melody and has five parts – an intonation which is only sung at the very beginning of the psalm verse; the first reciti...
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Apr 3, 2001 · Plainsong is a humble story involving ordinary people living ordinary lives. Though most of the novel is delicate, gentle even delicate, there are sharp crescendoes: a disturbing teenaged sex scene as well as a violent attack by directed against the boys by an older teen in retaliation for being failed in American History by the boys’ father.
