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‖ planctus|ˈplaŋktəs|
Pl. planctus |-uːs|.
[L., = beating of the breast, lamentation.]
A medieval lament (lament n. 2). Cf. planh.
1901Jrnl. Germanic Philol. III. 417 From the various German Lamentations he [sc. A. Schönbach] culls eighteen versicles, mostly quatrains, which occur most frequently and of which the first thirteen are in form and in content a free version of the Latin Planctus. 1903E. K. Chambers Mediæval Stage II. iii. xviii. 32 The metrical hymns are often of the nature of planctus or laments put in the mouths of the Maries as they approach the sepulchre... These planctus add greatly to the vividness and humanity of the play. 1907Mod. Philol. IV. 605 It is hoped that the present discussion of the English planctus may in the future help to make more easily possible a comparative study of the planctus as a class. Ibid. 606 The chief purpose of this study is to discuss the several non⁓dramatic English planctus in their relation to each other. 1940G. Reese Music in Middle Ages (1941) vii. 198 These planctus, with Latin texts, are believed actually to date from the 7th century and to be compositions, perhaps, of St. Eugenius. 1954New Oxf. Hist. Music II. vi. 193 Although some of the most famous of the planctus of the Passion are solo stanzas, spoken by the Virgin Mary, yet there are a number in dialogue form, the speakers being most frequently Mary and St. John. 1964C. S. Lewis Discarded Image iii. 36 Natura as Alanus brings her in, stiffly robed in rhetoric, conceit, and symbol, pleading again the cause of procreation in her planctus (against the sodomites). 1970W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. (ed. 2) 461/2 A ‘Planctus Karoli’ lamenting the death of Charlemagne (814) and another planctus for his son Hugo (844). 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 17 June 727/5 The cycle of six planctus by Peter Abelard. |