Chant vs Intone - What's the difference?
chant | intone |
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.
(lb) To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
(lb) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.
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*:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
(lb) To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.
As verbs the difference between chant and intone
is that chant is to sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music while intone is to give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.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 .