Scan 121
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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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 (shäñ-tă-moo-rŭ') Fr.
4A love song.
5chant d' église (shäñ dă-glēz') Fr.
6Church singing.
7chant de noël (shäñ dŭ nō-ěl') Fr.
8A Christmas carol: a song in praise of Christmas.
9chant de triomphe (shäñ dŭ trē-ônf)
10Fr.
11A triumphal song, a song of triumph. A song sung in celebration of some victory.
12chant des oiseaux (shäñ dă-swä-zō')
13Fr.
14Singing of the birds.
15chant, double
16A 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.
17chant du soir (shäñ dŭ swăr) Fr.
18Evening chant.
19chant égal (shäñ-tă-găl') Fr.
20chant en ison (shäñ-tă-nē-zōñ') Fr.
21Equal chant: a chant sung on only two tones and having therefore but one interval.
22chant funébre (shäñ fŭ-nābr') Fr.
23A dirge: a song to be sung at funerals.
24chant lugubre (shäñ- lŭ-güb'r') Fr.
25A mournful, dismal song: a song of mourning and lamentation.
26chant, Lydian Eng. from Grk.
27A tender and delicate melody to be sung in a languid and melancholy style.
28chant, Phrygian
29A chant intended to arouse the hearers to fury and rage.
30chant, plain
31Vocal music in its simplest form, as used in the early Christian Church. See also plain chant.
32chant, proper
33See proper chant.
34chant, Roman
35See Roman chant.
36chant royal (shäñ rwă-yăl) Fr.
37In 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.
39chantries
40It was written in heroic form and closed with a stanza containing dedication, recapitulation and moral.
41chant sacré (shäñ säkr') Fr.
42Sacred music.
43chant, single
44A simple melody of several parts extending through only one verse of a song. See also single chant.
45chant sur le livre (shäñ sûr lŭ lēvr')
46Fr.
47Extemporaneous 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.
48chantant (shäñ-tăn) Fr. adj.
49chantante (shäñ-tăn't) Fr. adj.
50From chanter, to sing.
511. Singing.
522. Lyric in character: easily sung; in a melodious and singing style.
53chantante basse (băs shäñ-tăn't) Fr.
54A lyric bass, a flexible bass voice.
55chantée (shäñ-tă) Fr. adj.
56Sung.
57chanter a livre ouvert (shäñ-tă' ā lē-vroo-vĕr') Fr.
58To sing on opening the book: to sing at sight.
59chanter à pleine voix (shäñ-tă' ā plēn vwā') Fr.
60To sing with the full voice.
61chanter, arch
62The chief chanter: the singer who leads the choir in singing chants.
63chanter en choeur (shäñ-tă' āñ kŭr')
64Fr.
65To sing in a choir or in a chorus.
66chanterelle (shäñ-tŭ-rĕl') Fr. n.
67The 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.
68chanteur (shäñ-tūr') Fr. n.
69A male singer.
70chanteuse (shäñ-tūz') Fr. n.
71A female singer.
72chantonner (shäñ-tôn-nā') Fr. v. one of two readings
73chantonner (shäñ-tôn-nă') Fr. v. one of two readings
74To hum.
75chantries
76Institutions 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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