CHANT

Chant

Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes to highly complex musical structures, often including a great deal of repetition of musical subphrases, such as Great Responsories and Offertories of Gregorian chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized form of speech. In the later Middle Ages some religious chant evolved into song .

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chant

Noun

  1. Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.

Verb

  1. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.


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