Difference between revisions of "Chant"

<p> '''(1):''' (v. t.) To celebrate in song. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (v. t.) Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (v. t.) To utter with a melodious voice; to sing. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (v. t.) To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant. </p> <p> '''(5):''' (v. t.) [[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. </p> <p> '''(6):''' (v. t.) Song; melody. </p> <p> '''(7):''' (v. i.) To sing, as in reciting a chant. </p> <p> '''(8):''' (v. t.) [[A]] psalm, etc., arranged for chanting. </p> <p> '''(9):''' (v. i.) To make melody with the voice; to sing. </p>

<p> [[Chant,]] </p> 1. To sing to utter a melodious voice that is, to cant or throw the voice in modulations. <p> The cheerful birds do chant sweet music. </p> 2. To celebrate in song as, to chant the praises of Jehovah. 3. To sing, as in church-service to repeat words in a kind of canting voice, with modulations.

<p> (פָּרִט '', parat´,'' to ''chatter,'' spoken contemptuously; Sept. ἐπικρατέω ) occurs only in &nbsp;Amos 6:5, where the passage, "That ''chant'' to the sound of the viol," may be rendered, "That sing to the sound of the harp." The Chaldee, Syriac, and [[Vulgate]] read, "who sing to the sound of the psaltery;" and the margin of our version gives "quaver." [[Josephus]] informs us that the instrument here termed ''nebel'' was of a triangular shape, and carried in the hand. In the paintings on the monuments at [[Thebes]] we find players on the harp in the act of singing to the sound of their own music. (See the cut below.) [[Similar]] scenes are depicted on the [[Assyrian]] monuments. (See [[Music]]). Both among the [[Jews]] and the [[Egyptians]] musical instruments were chiefly played upon by women: the Psalmist, describing a musical procession,' says, "The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels" (&nbsp;Psalms 68:25). (See [[Harp]]). </p> <p> (cantus, a song), the word employed in the early Church to designate the vocal music of the congregation. The term was applied, later, to special tunes adapted to prose; e.g. the Ambrosian, established by St. Ambrose, and the Gregorian, introduced by [[Pope]] Gregory the Great, who established schools of chanters, and corrected the Church music. This, at first, was called the Roman song; afterwards the plain song, as the choir and people sing in unison. In modern liturgical worship, the word designates the musical performance of all those parts of a prose liturgy which are permitted to be sung or recited in a musical tone. In a wider sense, it is used to denote those forms of sacred music in which prose (e.g. passages of Scripture) is sung in simple harmonies. (See [[Music]]). </p>