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What (who) is Chant - definition

RHYTHMIC SPEAKING OR SINGING OF RHYMED TEXT DURING AN ACTION TO EXPRESS EMOTION OR THOUGHTS

Chanting; Chants; Chant Sounds; Religious chanting

Chant

·vt Song; melody.

II. Chant ·vt To celebrate in song.

III. Chant ·vi To sing, as in reciting a chant.

IV. Chant ·vt A psalm, ·etc., arranged for chanting.

V. Chant ·vt Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.

VI. Chant ·vi To make melody with the voice; to Sing.

VII. Chant ·vt To utter with a melodious voice; to Sing.

VIII. Chant ·vt To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.

IX. Chant ·vt A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, ·etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.

chant

I. v. a., v. n.

1.

Sing, warble, carol.

2.

Intone.

3.

Celebrate in song.

II. n.

Song, carol, melody.

chant

¦ noun

1. a repeated rhythmic phrase, typically one shouted or sung in unison by a crowd.

2. a monotonous or repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.

3. Music a short musical passage in two or more phrases used for singing unmetrical words; a psalm or canticle sung to such music.

¦ verb say or shout repeatedly in a sing-song tone.

?sing or intone (a psalm, canticle, or sacred text).

Origin

ME: from OFr. chanter 'sing', from L. cantare, frequentative of canere 'sing'.

Wikipedia

Chant

A chant (from French chanter, from Latin cantare, "to sing") is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main 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 (forming one of the roots of later Western music).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chant

Examples of use of Chant

1. His party is after all named after a football chant.

2. "Oftentimes I chant Torah reading on Shabbat morning," she says.

3. He knew its grammar and could chant the ancient hymns.

4. Easy!" chant the Edgbaston crowd, and it‘s hard to disagree.

5. Solesmes Gregorian chant scholar, Dom Mocquereau, had taught Sister Bernadette how to sing plain chant, but when in the 1'50s his popularising methods were found to have interpreted chant rhythms too narrowly, she sent her nuns to France to learn a more modern interpretation of how the chant might have been sung in the early Church.