Category:Chants

Chant (from Old French chanter) is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes to highly complex musical structures, often including a great deal of repetition of musical subphrases, such as Great Responsories and Offertories of Gregorian chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized form of speech. In the later Middle Ages some religious chant evolved into song (forming one of the roots of later Western music).
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External links:

• Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, UK
• Yahoo discussion list on Chant

Anglican chants are categorized elsewhere.

There are also composer pages for Gregorian chant and Ambrosian chant

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