Chant vs Lanterloo - What's the difference?
chant | lanterloo |
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.
A meaningless chant or refrain.
:* 1963': The helmsman began to sing a monotonous, Levantine '''lanterloo . — Thomas Pynchon, ''V.
(cards) An old trick-taking card game (also known as loo), where each player is dealt three or five cards. It gained much popularity in England in the 17th century, as a gambling game or a domestic pastime.
As nouns the difference between chant and lanterloo
is that chant is type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony while lanterloo is a meaningless chant or refrain.As a verb chant
is to sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.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 .