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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1chant
2cited to one note of the accompaniment. This style is adapted to compositions having prose text, as the canticles and psalms, the melody being very slow and in no degree marked or flowing.
3chant amoureux (shāñ-tă-moo-rū') Fr.
4A love song.
5chant d' église (shāñ dā-glēz') Fr.
6Church singing.
7chant de noël (shāñ dū nō-ěl') Fr.
8A Christmas carol: a song in praise of Christmas.
9chant de triomphe (shāñ dū trē-ōñf) Fr.
10A triumphal song, a song of triumph. A song sung in celebration of some victory.
11chant des oiseaux (shāñ dā-swā-zō') Fr.
12Singing of the birds.
13chant, double
14A chant or simple melody to which two verses of a psalm are recited. It would have four notes on which the voice is held and four cadences or ornaments.
15chant du soir (shāñ dū swār) Fr.
16Evening chant.
17chant égal (shāñ-tă-gāl') Fr.
18chant en ison (shāñ-tă-nē-zōñ') Fr.
19Equal chant: a chant sung on only two tones and having therefore but one interval.
20chant funébre (shāñ fū-nābr') Fr.
21A dirge: a song to be sung at funerals.
22chant lugubre (shāñ- lū-gūbr') Fr.
23A mournful, dismal song: a song of mourning and lamentation.
24chant, Lydian Eng. from Grk.
25A tender and delicate melody to be sung in a languid and melancholy style.
26chant, Phrygian
27A chant intended to arouse the hearers to fury and rage.
28chant, plain
29Vocal music in its simplest form, as used in the early Christian Church. See also plain chant.
30chant, proper
31See proper chant.
32chant, Roman
33See Roman chant.
34chant royal (shāñ rwā-yāl) Fr.
35In early French poetry certain lyrics written on lofty subjects and set to music. According to Pasquier a chant royal was a song in honor of God, the Virgin, or the saints, or any other subject of dignity and distress.
37chantries
38It was written in heroic form and closed with a stanza containing dedication, recapitulation and moral.
39chant sacré (shāñ sākr') Fr.
40Sacred music.
41chant, single
42A simple melody of several parts extending through only one verse of a song. See also single chant.
43chant sur le livre (shāñ sūr lū lēvr') Fr.
44Extemporaneous parts added by one or more voices to the simple theme of the main melody sung by others. A kind or part singing, where each singer made up his own part as he sang it and which resulted in a discordant mingling of sounds.
45chantant (shāñ-tāñ) Fr. adj.
46chantante (shāñ-tāñt) Fr. adj.
47From chanter, to sing.
481. Singing.
492. Lyric in character: easily sung; in a melodious and singing style.
50chantante basse (bās shāñ-tāñt) Fr.
51A lyric bass, a flexible bass voice.
52chantée (shāñ-tā) Fr. adj.
53Sung.
54chanter a livre ouvert (shāñ-tā' ā lē-vroo-vēr') Fr.
55To sing on opening the book: to sing at sight.
56chanter à pleine voix (shāñ-tā' ā plēn vwā) Fr.
57To sing with the full voice.
58chanter, arch
59The chief chanter: the singer who leads the choir in singing chants.
60chanter en choeur (shāñ-tā' āñ kūr) Fr.
61To sing in a choir or in a chorus.
62chanterelle (shāñ-tū-rēl') Fr. n.
63The soprano or first string, the E string of the violin and mandolin. The smallest and highest strings of any instrument of the violin or lute family.
64chanteur (shāñ-tūr') Fr. n.
65A male singer.
66chanteuse (shāñ-tūz') Fr. n.
67A female singer.
68chantonner (shāñ-tōn-nā') Fr. v.
69To hum.
70chantries
71Institutions endowed and established for the purpose of freeing the souls of the founders from purgatory by means of their singing. For instance, a church or chapel endowed for the purpose of saying daily mass for the soul of the donors.
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