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
- 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.
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