Chant vs Recite - What's the difference?
chant | recite |
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 repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, often before an audience
To list or enumerate something
To deliver a recitation
As verbs the difference between chant and recite
is that chant is to sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music while recite is to repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, often before an audience.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 .