Over and above everything else, the purpose of plainchant is to:

a) intelligibly project the meaning of the text
b) provide singers with a body of music meant to impress listeners with feats of virtuosity
c) provide training compositions for church choirs
d) encourage composers to develop more precise ways of notating rhythm

a

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