If you chant or if you chant something, you sing a religious song or prayer. Muslims chanted and prayed Mr Sharma lit incense and chanted Sanskrit mantras. + chanting chant·ing The chanting inside the temple stopped. Byzantine chant fixed chant Gregorian chant
(Gr echos; Sl glas) The music proper to the Orthodox services There are eight tones or modes in the Orthodox Byzantine chant, chanted by the chanters or cantors
If you chant something or if you chant, you repeat the same words over and over again. Demonstrators chanted slogans The crowd chanted `We are with you.' Several thousand people chanted and demonstrated outside the building. + chanting chant·ing A lot of the chanting was in support of the deputy Prime Minister
the language the auctioneer uses to accept the current bid and raise to the next bid Every auctioneer has a different chant and speed Livestock and automobile auctioneers usually sell the fastest; household and general merchandise auctioneers sell at a medium tempo; and real estate, heavy equipment and other high dollar auctioneers sell at a slower tempo
To some people, the word ‘chant’ refers to mindless repetitions of the same words and phrases But ‘chant’ is actually a technical term for a specific musical form—a simple melody in which you sing a number of words or syllables on the same note Or you might say that a song is words set to music, but a chant is music set to words The most well-known chant is the musical setting of the Lord’s Prayer, which is more elaborate than most chants Chants were invented to encourage congregational singing, since they require less musical skill than songs The advantage of chanting is that most any text can be chanted to any tune without modifying either the tune or the text, and that makes it an ideal way to put scripture to music
Not exactly singing, nor reading, chanting is a recitation midway between singing and reading Chanting originated in the monastic orders in the early centuries of the Church
a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer
[ 'chant ] (verb.) 14th century. Middle English chaunten, from Middle French chanter, from Latin cantare, frequentative of canere to sing; akin to Old English hana rooster, Old Irish canid he sings.