You see, if you had read the article (or even paid attention to what I
wrote), you would know that Gregorian Chant is specifically mentioned as
the model used by some authorities to make claims about Hebrew Chant.
Now: Chant:
Latin cantum > Anglo-Norman French > chaunt > ModE. chant
Standard usage: "a measured, monotonous song; usually implying something
less tuneful than an air or song.."
The 14th-century name for a rooster, "chauntacleer" or "chaunteclere." is
onomatopoeic, after the cock's crow. -- which certainly is monotonous and
less tuneful than an air or song. So, for that matter is a charm chant.Both
cock's crow and charm chant reveal the standard perception of what is meant
by 'chant.'
Now melody is one heck of a mnemonic, That the prose of the MT is set to
'chant' is one thing; to do it to songs is another.There are good reasons
why Psalms were known as '"hearpan sang" -- harp song, -- and that, Yonah,
is 11th-century English.
Further, there were more than 300 attempts to set
English translations of the Psalms to melodies between the sixteenth
century and the first quarter of the twentieth century. And those melodies
emulated folk song! That also says something about the perceived
distinction between song and chant.
There are no synonyms in the English language.
If 'chant' meant solely
'song', one of the words
would have disappeared centuries ago. It doesn't, though. It means a
specific type of song..
"People longing to turn the word ''religion' into a byword' ??? Hoo, boy!
This one won the "prys."..
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