While the degree that fills the third is one characteristic, the actual pitches that are sung form another related but different feature.
Their songs are conceived and sung in a natural landscape; moreover, this natural landscape participates by echoing back their music.
All of the songs are sung very quietly with little overt expression.
When folk-song had been sung, it had been the current song.
Each disc forms a well-constructed programme, sung to the familiar high standard of this group.
What was sung in ferial processions between the baptisteries?
Both times this fragment of melody - it is hard to call it anything else - is sung to the same text, in opportunitatibus in tribulatione.
While this song is sung, the sound comes closer to heightened speech than song.