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chant Unaccompanied liturgical singing, especially of
psalms. Anglican chant developed from the earlier Gregorian tones, which were melody formulas defining pitch relationships only. Later, harmonies were added to the melodies and note values designated to English texts of the psalms. The chant is adjustable in length to fit different verses by repeating one note for any number of words, a process known as pointing.
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Using Chant Repertoire in Today's Liturgy
Magazine article from: Pastoral Music; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...more expertly into the chant repertoire, you can...body of more elaborate chants-the music most often...talk about "Gregorian chant"-set out in order...edition of Custos (the NPM chant newsletter), Father...Antiphonale contains chants for the Divine Office...
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Gregorian Chant Today
Magazine article from: Pastoral Music; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Sometimes we use Gregorian chant because it fits the ritual well...What we know as Gregorian chant, in fact, is the product of...similar, in some respects, to chants of the synagogue, to ancient Hellenic chant and hymnody, to some early...
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VARIED CHANTS TRANSCEND CENTURIES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/23/2004; ; 631 words
; CAMBRIDGE - Chant wars raged throughout...uniformity on the singing of chants in all the churches of his empire. Chant wars may rage again...with a chant about chant, a tribute to the...and continued with chants from Rome, Gaul...
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Gregorian `Chant': God's Greatest Hits?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/24/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...an album of Gregorian chants, simply titled "Chant," a one-disc version...The Best of Gregorian Chant by the Monks of Santo...that first released the chants, told Reuter: "The...with the public." "Chant" is doing very well...
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Gregorian Chants Hot in Spain, Soon to Be in U.S.
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 3/8/1994; 700+ words
; ...words, and Gregorian chant has its origin on the...recording of Gregorian chants] Brother EDUARDO: The...of rhythm. Gregorian chant is not - has no rigid...something - Gregorian chant that was born in the...recording of Gregorian chants] EDWARDS: Brother Eduardo...
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FEATURE: GREGORIAN CHANTS KEPT ALIVE
News Wire article from: United Press International; 6/11/2003; 700+ words
; ...enter the monastery because of the chant," he added. "And if you did...Scholars believe the first Gregorian chants were sung as early as the 5th century...marriage of Latin liturgy and Gallican chant. Rather, the chants blossomed under a later political...
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Du chant avant toute chose
Magazine article from: L'Art du Cinema; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...venons-en Demy, cinaste du chant plus d'un titre, ne serait...sous l'appellation "en-chant". Souvent rduit un vague signifiant...et ses dialogues entirement chants. Bien que c'en soit la dfinition...identifier Yenchant au tout-chant.1 L'en-chant provoque...
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Feature: Gregorian chants kept alive.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 6/11/2003; 700+ words
; ...enter the monastery because of the chant," he added. "And if you did...Scholars believe the first Gregorian chants were sung as early as the 5th century...marriage of Latin liturgy and Gallican chant. Rather, the chants blossomed under a later political...
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Ancient Chants Soothe Today's Unsettled Souls
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/18/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...fills in the background for chant neophytes. All this was mystifying...enough - for hasn't Gregorian chant been around for 1,000 years...a new wrinkle appeared. The chant hybrids, world music-enhanced...These new-agey, morphed chants grabbed the restless ears of...
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Chant laureate finds poetry in motion
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/4/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...competition to find a chant laureate, he immediately...after producing 20 chants that a group of professional...quality.'' His chants were more like poems...songs than traditional chants, he said. Hurst recently wrote a chant commemorating Alex...
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Chanté, Keshia
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
Keshia Chant é 1988 — Musician Canada's Keshia Chant é is a teen pop star — but her background...s examples referred to other teen successes, but Chant é earned her spot on Canadian music charts the...
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chant
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
chant general name for one-voiced, unaccompanied, liturgical music...and single-line chanting in other religions. Roman Catholic chant, commonly called Gregorian chant or plainsong , is diatonic, modally organized (see mode ), and...
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Anglican chant
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Anglican chant. Simple type of harmonized melody used in the Anglican Church (and nowadays often in...succeeding notes are sung in time and (normally) take one syllable each. The 1st part of the chant has 3 measures and the 2nd part 4.
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Mozarabic chant
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Mozarabic chant. The music of the Mozarabic rite . The neumes in most of the early MSS cannot now be read, but there is some evidence that the melodies resembled the Ambrosian as much as the Gregorian chant .
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Gregorian Chant
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Gregorian Chant . Solo and unison plainsong choral chants assoc. with Pope Gregory I which became the fundamental mus. of the RC Church. See Plainsong .
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