Singing vs Chant - What's the difference?
singing | chant |
The act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing.
(informal) Disclosing information, or giving evidence about another.
(US) A gathering for the purpose of singing shape note songs.
(music) Smooth and flowing.
Producing a whistling sound due to the escape of steam.
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.
In lang=en terms the difference between singing and chant
is that singing is smooth and flowing while chant is 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.As an adjective singing
is smooth and flowing.singing
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(wikipedia singing) (en-noun)Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)See also
* sing * singing bowl * songAnagrams
*chant
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) chauntVerb
(en verb)- The cheerful birds do chant sweet music.
Noun
(wikipedia chant) (en noun)- His strange face, his strange chant .