Editing Chant (section)

{{Short description|Rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds}}
{{Other uses}}
{{technical reasons|Chant #1|the Spandau Ballet song|Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)}}
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| filename     = Pange Lingua Latin in Latin.ogg
| title        = Pange Lingua sung in Latin
| description  = The [[Latin]] text of [[Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium|Pange Lingua]] sung to its traditional melody, mode iii [[Gregorian chant]]
}}
A '''chant''' (from [[French language|French]] ''{{lang|fr|{{linktext|chanter}}}}'',<ref>{{cite dictionary |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=chant |dictionary=[[Online Etymology Dictionary]] |title=Chant |date=November 2001 |access-date=17 March 2019 |first=Douglas |last=Harper |publisher=MaoningTech |editor-first=Dan |editor-last=McCormack |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041026151930/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=chant |archive-date=26 October 2004 |url-status=live }}</ref> from [[Latin]] ''{{lang|la|{{linktext|cantare}}}}'', "to sing")<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Chant|volume=5|page=846}}</ref> is the iterative speaking or [[singing]] of [[word]]s or [[sound]]s, often primarily on one or two main [[pitch (music)|pitch]]es called [[reciting tone]]s.  Chants may range from a simple [[melody]] involving a limited set of [[note (music)|note]]s to highly complex musical structures, often including a great deal of [[Repetition (music)|repetition]] of musical subphrases, such as Great [[Responsory|Responsories]] and [[Offertory|Offertories]] of [[Gregorian chant]].  Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized form of speech. In the [[Late Middle Ages]], some religious chant evolved into song (forming one of the roots of later Western music).<ref>{{cite book |last=Stolba |first=K. Marie |year=1994 |title=The Development of Western Music: A History |edition=2nd |publisher=[[McGraw Hill]] |isbn=9780697293794 |pages=734 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8UZAQAAIAAJ}}</ref>

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