Chant

Chant as a spiritual practice:
– Chanting is a common spiritual practice used for personal or group development.
– Various cultures and religions use chanting, including African, Vedic, Islamic, Buddhist, Jewish, and Roman Catholic traditions.
– Historical examples include Germanic paganism chants.
– Chant practices vary, with examples like Pali chanting in Theravada Buddhism and throat singing in Tibetan Buddhism.
– Hindu traditions emphasize chanting mantras and devotional kirtan practices.

See also:
– A lo divino
– Football chant
– Fight song
– Sea shanty (rhythmical work song on sailing vessels)
– Skipping-rope rhyme
– Smot (chanting)

References:
– Harper, Douglas (2001). Chant. Online Etymology Dictionary.
– Chisholm, Hugh (1911). Chant. Encyclopædia Britannica.
– Stolba, K. Marie (1994). The Development of Western Music: A History.
– ReShel, Azriel (2018). Neuroscience and the Sanskrit Effect.

External links:
– Wikiquote has quotations related to chant.
– Look up chant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
– Notable figures like St. Godric, Peter Abelard, and Hildegard of Bingen are associated with chant.
– Troubadours, trobairitz, and trouvères have historical connections to chant.
– S. N. Goenka, a prominent figure in Vipassana meditation, is linked to chant.

Chant (Wikipedia)

For other uses, see Chant (disambiguation).

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A chant (from French chanter, from Latin cantare, "to sing") is the iterative 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 Responsories and Offertories of Gregorian chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized form of speech. In the later Middle Ages some religious chant evolved into song (forming one of the roots of later Western music).

Pange Lingua sung in Latin

The Latin text of Pange Lingua sung to its traditional melody, mode iii Gregorian chant

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