chant, plain

Vocal music in its simplest form, as chanteur (shan-tur') Fr. n. used in the early Christian Church. A male singer. See also plain chant, chanteuse (shan-tuz') Fr. n. chant, proper A female singer. See proper chant, chant, Roman chan tonner To hum. (shafi-ton-na') Fr. v. See Roman chant, chantries chant royal (shan rwa-yal) Fr. Institutions endowed and estab- In early French poetry certain lished for the purpose of freeing the lyrics written on lofty subjects and souls of the founders from purgatory set to music. According to Pasquier by means of their singing. For a chant royal was a song in honor of instance, a church or chapel endowed God, the Virgin, or the saints, or any for the purpose of saying daily ma other subject of dignity and distre . for the soul of the donors. 117 98 chantry priests chatzozerah chantry priests special occurrence or expre some Priests chosen to sing in a chantry, certain emotion. As a noun this word or church edifice, endowed and estabrelates to the individual character of lished for the purpose that ma may the different musical keys. Theoretbe daily sung there for the soul of ically every major or minor key is the donor. precisely alike because the intervals between the notes are exactly similar. shen-wa') Fr. Chinese chino is chapeau hat: (sha-po' a set of small bells However, many musicians maintain hung on an inverted crescent and that the sharp keys have brighter and used in military music. The name stronger character and the flat keys a was derived from its resemblance in duller and more somber, a minor char shape to a Chinese hat. acter. chapel characteristic chord 1. A church. The leading or principal chord: the chord founded upon the fifth note of a 2. A general term for those musiscale and introducing a perfect cians in the service of a great per cadence, or one which satisfies the sonage. ear at the end of a movement or of the