free chant

Mus.: A form of recitative music for the Psalms and Canticles, in which a phrase, consisting of two chords only, is applied to each hemistich of the words. The author of the form, Mr. John Crowdy, in his Free Chant Cadences , claims for it that it removes all difficulties in dividing the words, and enables the unskilled worshiper to join confidently in the chanting, without the a istance of any marks beyond the colons provided for the purpose in the Prayer Book.