chant

1. Originally a song, and still so meant in the French word (vide below), since the Greg or i an time used of vocal music marked by the recitation of many syllables on one tone, and employed for prose texts such as the Canticles and Psalms. There are two sorts of chant, the Greg or i an and the Anglican. (a) The Greg or i an is a short tune to be repeated in succe ive sections of prose; it has 8 tones and is in four parts; the intonation (or inchoatio) or opening notes; the first reciting note (or dominant); the mediation; the second reciting note (or dominant); the termination (ending or cadence). (b) The Anglican omits the intonation and differs’ in the rhythm and mode but has the same monotone recitation with modulations in the middle (mediation) and end (termination). The Anglican has two parts of 3 and 4 measures, 7 in all; this is the single chant, there are also double, triple, and quadruple forms of proportionate length. In chanting, the fitting of the unequal phrases to the music is called pointing, and consists of reciting them strictly within the duration of the notes except those of the rst and 4th measures which are enlarged to fit the words. Words to be sung to the cadence are cut off from those to be sung to the reciting-note, by a vertical line called the cadence-mark. 2. Any recitation character. of 3. A tone. chant-like 4. A cantus firm us. 5. Vide PLAIN-CHANT. 6. Vide CHANGEABLE. 7. Free-chant. A form in which the hemistichs consist of only 2 measures, 8. Roman Chant-Greg or i an. 9. Phrygian chant. wrath.