Yes! chant is designed for unaccompanied singing. And another fundamental thing is the dialogues between priest and people, which musically makes the same point since the peoples response is usually the same tune, no need for the organ (which is not permitted tomake sure you do incipits right from the get-go so that people understand the concept of the solo-intonation to start
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