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Anglican chant is a form of "harmonized plainsong," closely related in form to the Gregorian psalm tones. A chant consists of 10 notes in two parts. The first part consists of a "reciting chord" and three ending chords; the second consists of a "reciting chord" and five ending chords. A poetic text (generally with irregular meter) may be divided up into pairs of lines. (There are some "double" chants, for which texts must be divided into quatrains.) Each line is "pointed" to indicate how the text should be fitted to the chant. Here are two explanations of pointing systems and performance methods; note that the performance differences are more significant than the representation differences: Chants are included in the general CCEH hymn indexes of Authors and Sources, Tune Names, and Incipits. |
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