Chant vs Cantillate - What's the difference?
chant | cantillate |
To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
* Spenser
To sing or intone sacred text.
Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
(music) 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.
Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
* Macaulay
A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
To chant, or to recite musically (especially in a synagogue)
As verbs the difference between chant and cantillate
is that chant is to sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music while cantillate is to chant, or to recite musically (especially in a synagogue).As a noun chant
is type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.chant
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic) chauntVerb
(en verb)- The cheerful birds do chant sweet music.
Noun
(wikipedia chant) (en noun)- His strange face, his strange chant .
