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.

• 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.

• Hymn
• Lyrics
• Mantra
• Music
• Song

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