Chanting

Chanting: Encyclopedia - Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant is also known as plainchant or plainsong and is a form of monophonic, unaccompanied singing, which was developed in the Catholic church, mainly during the period 800-1000. It takes its name from Pope St. Gregory the Great, who is believed to have brought it to the West based on Eastern models of Byzantine chant. This music was traditionally sung by monks or other male clerics and was used during religious services. It is the music of the Roman Rite of the Mass, also known as the Gregorian rite or T ...

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Chanting: Encyclopedia - Chant royal

The chant royal is a poetic form that consists of five eleven-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E or a seven-line envoi c-c-d-d-e-d-E. It was introduced into French poetry in the 14th century by Christine de Pizan and Charles d'Orléans and was introduced into England towards the end of the 19th century as part of a general revival of interest in French poetic forms. Chant royal - An Example. The Dance of Death < ...

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Chanting: Encyclopedia - Barry Chant

Reverend Dr Barry Chant is the author of Heart of fire: The story of Australian Pentecostalism (the first history of Australian pentecostalism) and a co-founder and founding Principal of Tabor College, Australia of which he is currently President. He was founding editor of Australia's New Day magazine, the first national magazine addressing Australian pentacostals, charismatics and evangelicals. He is currently Senior Pastor of the International Congregation at Wesley Mission, Sydney, Australia. He was ordained as a pastor in the Christian ...

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Chanting: Encyclopedia - Anglican chant

Anglican chant is a method of singing prose translations of the Psalms in the Anglican church. Each verse, pair, group of three, or group of four verses is set to a simple harmonized melody of 7, 14, 21 or 28 bars (known respectively as a single, double, triple or quadruple chant), with the majority of the syllables freely chanted on the extendable reciting notes, which occupy the first, fourth, eighth, eleventh etc bars. The origins of the method are obscure, but it was well established by the eighteenth century. Canticles such as the Magnificat and Nunc di ...

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Anglican chant - How chanting works

Chanting: Encyclopedia - Dark Chanting Goshawk

The Dark Chanting Goshawk (Melierax metabates) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, eagles and harriers. This hawk breeds in sub-Saharan Africa, but avoids the rain forests of the Congo basin. There is a small and declining isolated population in Morocco. It is a resident species of tropical and subtropical savannah. It builds a stick nest in a tree and lays one or two e ...

Chanting: Encyclopedia - Pundit India

A pandit or pundit (Devanagari: पन्दित) is a Hindu Brahmin who has memorized a substantial portion of the Vedas, along with the corresponding rhythms and melodies for chanting or singing them. Pandits are hired to chant Vedic verses at yagyas and other events, both public and private. The chanting is meant to be listened to with a quiet mind for the purpose of spiritual development for the listener as well as enlivening of the atmosphere at an event. A famous member of this gr ...

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Pundit India - Contemporary use

Chanting: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary on Shruti

shruti: (Sanskrit) "That which is heard."

Hinduism's revealed scriptures, of supreme theological authority and spiritual value. They are timeless teachings transmitted to rishis, or seers, directly by God thousands of years ago. Shruti is thus said to be apaurusheya, "impersonal," or rather "suprahuman."

Shruti consists essentially of the Vedas and the Agamas, preserved initially through oral tradition and eventually written down in Sanskrit. Among the many sacred books of the Hindus, these two bodies of knowledge are held in the highest esteem. For countless centuries shruti has been the basis of philosophical discussion, study and commentary, and this attention has given rise to countless schools of thought. It is also the subject of deep study and meditation, to realize the wisdom of the ancients within oneself.

Most mantras are drawn from shruti, used for rites of worship, both public and domestic, as well as personal prayer and japa. It is a remarkable tribute to Hindu culture that so much of shruti was preserved for thousands of years without alteration by means of oral instruction from guru to shishya, generation after generation. In the Veda tradition this was accomplished by requiring the student to learn each verse in eleven different ways, including backwards. Traditionally shruti is not read, but chanted according to extremely precise rules of grammar, pitch, intonation and rhythm. This brings forth its greatest power. In the sacred language of shruti, word and meaning are so closely aligned that hearing these holy scriptures properly chanted is magical in its effect upon the soul of the listener.

See: Agamas, smriti, Vedas.

(See also: Shruti, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

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Chanting: Encyclopedia - Who Ate All the Pies?

"Who Ate All the Pies?" is a famous football chant sung by fans in Britain; although not prescriptively so, it is usually sung to the tune of "Knees Up Mother Brown" and is aimed at supposedly overweight footballers, officials or opposing supporters. Who Ate All the Pies? - The first chant. It is claimed to have first been sung at the huge goalie William Henry Foulkes (known as Fatty Foulkes) who was 6 ft 2 inches (188 cm) tall and apparently weighed about 12 stone (170 lbs, or 80 kg) when he joined Sheffie ...

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Chanting: Encyclopedia - Buddhist music

Buddhist music is music created for or inspired by Buddhism and part of Buddhist art. Buddhist music - Honkyoku. Honkyoku are the pieces of shakuhachi or hocchiku music played by wandering Japanese Zen monks called komuso. Komuso played honkyoku for enlightenment and alms as early as the 13th century. In the 18th century, a komuso named Kinko Kurosawa of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism was commissioned to travel throughout Japan and collect these musical pieces. The results of several years of travel a ...

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Chanting: Encyclopedia - Byzantine music

Byzantine music is the music of the Byzantine Empire and by extension the music of its culture(s) as they continued in the Orthodox Christian parts of the population after the fall of the empire to the rule of the Ottoman Empire. Byzantine music - The extent of Byzantine music culture vs. liturgical chant proper. The term Byzantine music is commonly associated with what should more correctly be termed the medieval sacred chant of Christian Churches following the Orthodox rite. The identificati ...

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Chanting: Encyclopedia - Cheerleading

Cheerleading is an activity that uses organized routines made up of elements from dance and/or gymnastics to cheer on sports teams at games and matches, and/or as a competitive sport. A cheerleading performer is a cheerleader. Cheerleading - History. Cheerleading came about at Princeton University in the 1880s with the crowd chant, "Rah rah rah, tiger tiger tiger, sis sis sis, boom boom boom ahhhhhhh, Princeton Princeton Princeton!" as a way to encourage school spirit at football games. A few years later, Princeto ...

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Chanting: Encyclopedia - Vishnu sahasranama

The Vishnu sahasranāma (literally: "Vishnu of the thousand names") is a list of 1,000 names for Vishnu, one of the main forms of God in Hinduism and the only Ultimate Reality for Vaishnavites (followers of Vishnu). More particularly, the Vishnu sahasranāma is one of the most sacred and chanted stotras in Hinduism. It is recited, often with a preface, as a prayer by many Vaishnavites. As described in the 149th chapter of Anushāsanaparva in the epic Mahabharata, the names were handed down to Yudhisthira by grand sire Bh ...

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Chanting: Encyclopedia - Christian music

Christian music is music created by or adapted for the Christian church. There is virtually no record of the earliest music of the Christian church except a few New Testament fragments of what are probably hymns. Some of these fragments are still sung as hymns today in the Orthodox Church, including "Awake, awake O sleeper" on the occasion of someone's baptism. Being Jewish, Jesus and his disciples would most likely have sung the psalms from memory. However, without a centralised music industry, the repertoire of ordinar ...

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Chanting: Encyclopedia - Music of Brittany

Brittany is on the northwest coast of France and is a region unique in that country in its Celtic cultural derivation. Though long under the control of France and influenced by French traditions, Brittany has retained and, more recently, revived its own folk music, modernizing and adapting it into folk-rock and other fusion genres. Brittany has been inhabited by the Celts since about the 6th century, and were independent for a time, though not united politically or, in all likelihood, culturally. Charlemagne, a Frankish king, conquere ...

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Music of Brittany - Traditional Breton music

Chanting: Encyclopedia - Christian worship

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Chanting: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary on CHANTING

CHANTING - rhythmic repetition of sound, such as a mantra, in which vibration energy is received and discharged. (NAD)

(See also: CHANTING, Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

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Chanting: Health and Healing Dictionary on Chant

Chant: Repetition of magical phrases, syllables, or words to produce a desired effect as well as bring the chanter to a deeper meditative state. See also Mantra.

(See also: Chant, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

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Chanting: Encyclopedia II - Football chant - Common chants

The simplest chant is just the name of the team shouted over and over again, often with clapping in the gap; e.g. "Tottenham" (clap clap clap); "Tottenham" (clap clap clap). Chants being nothing if not competitive, opposing supporters may respond by shouting an insulting word in the gap, most commonly used is shit. The next simplest chant, used when your team is ahead, is just the score repeated, e.g. "two nil; two nil", particularly if one the teams has scored recentl ...

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