Chant

A chant (from French chanter, from Latin cantare, "to sing") is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones.

Quotes

• Bring forward a chant, a melody of the heart!
  • Anonymous, A hymn (shir-namshub) to Inana (Inana G), at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.

• My Nanna, your chant is sweet; it is the chant of my heart.
  • Ningal, in a A suscript (balbale) to Nanna (Nanna B), late 3rd millennium BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.

See also

• Hymn
• Lyrics
• Mantra
• Music
• Song

External links

• A site about Vedic chants
• Traditional Buddhist Chants (Texts and Audio) as in the Buddhist Encyclopedia