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Chant logo #10101) Canticle 2) Catholic music 3) Charm 4) Choral music 5) Chorus from a crowd 6) Church has a book to sing 7) Croon 8) Crowd noise 9) Do a yoga mantra 10) Drone 11) Emulate a hazan 12) French girl name 13) French word used in English 14) Gregorian music style 15) Hare Krishna 16) Hymn 17) Incantation
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Chant

Chant logo #10101) Cantillate 2) Croon 3) Gregorian 4) Hallel 5) Incant 6) Into 7) Intonate 8) Intone 9) Monotone 10) Plainchant 11) Plainsong 12) Sing 13) Song
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Chant

Chant logo #21000 A chant (from French chanter) is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes to highly complex musical structures, often including a great deal of repetition of musical subphrases, such as Great Responso...
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Chant

Chant logo #21000[crater] This is a nearly circular crater with a slight outward bulge in the northeast wall. The outer rim is sharp-edged, and the inner sides slope directly downward with only some minor terraces along the east wall. The interior floor is somewhat irregular, particularly in the southern half. There is a small central peak at the midpoint o...
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Chant

Chant logo #21000[horse] Chant (foaled 1891 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1894 Kentucky Derby, Phoenix Stakes, and Clark Handicap. He was related through his damsire, King Alfonso, to Kentucky Derby winners Fonso (1880) and Joe Cotton (1885) and through his sire, Falsetto, to His Eminence (1901) and Sir Huon (1906). Chant ...
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Chant

Chant logo #21854The rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, either on a single pitch or with a simple melody involving a limited set of notes and often including a great deal of repetition or statis. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened form of speech which is more effective in conveying emotion or expressing ones spiritual side.
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chant logo #21032a complex French form of the ballade, having various forms.
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Chant

Chant logo #21002• (v. t.) To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant. • (v. t.) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music. • (v. i.) To make melody with the voice; to sing. • (v. t.) To celeb...
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Chant

Chant logo #20972Chant intransitive verb 1. To make melody with the voice; to sing. ' Chant to the sound of the viol.' Amos vi. 5. 2. (Mus.) To sing, as in reciting a chant. To chant (or chaunt) horses , to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling...
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Chant

Chant logo #20972Chant noun [ French chant , from Latin cantus singing, song, from canere to sing. See Chant , transitive verb ] 1. Song; melody. 2. (Mus.) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical ...
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Chant

Chant logo #20972Chant transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Chanted ; present participle & verbal noun Chanting .] [ French chanter , from Latin cantare , intens. of canere to sing. Confer Cant affected speaking, and...
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Chant

Chant logo #21217A chant is a short and simple musical melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
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Chant

Chant logo #21217Chant was old slang for to fraudulently praise something in order to sell it.
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chant logo #20400[n] - a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone 2. [v] - utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically 3. [v] - recite with musical intonation
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chant logo #20974 noun a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone
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chant logo #21221Ritual incantation by an individual or group, for confidence or mutual support. Chants can be secular (as, for example, sports supporters' chants) or religious, both Eastern and Western. Ambrosian and Gregorian chants are forms of plainsong
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Chant

Chant logo #21781Singing in unison, texts in a free rhythm. Similar to the rhythm of speech.
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chant logo #22288general term for liturgical song similar to plainsong.
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chant logo #21199a short, simple melody, esp. one characterized by single notes to which an indefinite number of syllables are intoned, used in singing psalms, canticles, etc., in church services. · a psalm, canticle, or the like, chanted or for chanting. · the singing or intoning of all or portions of a liturgical service. · any monotonous song. ...
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