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A chant (from French chanter, [1] from Latin cantare, "to sing") [2] is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes to highly complex musical structures, often including a great deal of repetition of ...
J'ai vu le loup. J'ai vu le loup ("I saw the wolf") is a French folk song, and also a nursery rhyme. [1] Due to it having been transmitted orally, it is difficult to pinpoint its exact origin, though the earliest versions date back to the High Middle Ages. [2] Many versions exist in the French-speaking world, both in langue d'oc and langue d'oïl.
The chanter is the part of the bagpipe upon which the player creates the melody. It consists of a number of finger-holes, and in its simpler forms looks similar to a recorder . On more elaborate bagpipes, such as the Northumbrian bagpipes or the Uilleann pipes , it also may have a number of keys, to increase the instrument's range and/or the ...
Cantor (Christianity) In Christianity, the cantor, female chantress, sometimes called the precentor or the protopsaltes ( Greek: πρωτοψάλτης, lit. 'first singer'; from Greek: ψάλτης, romanized: psaltes, lit. 'singer'), is the chief singer, and usually instructor, employed at a church, with responsibilities for the choir and the ...
Sandy Bresler, who served as Jack Nicholson’s agent for more than 60 years, died Thursday in Santa Monica. He was 87. Bresler founded the independent boutique agency Bresler-Kelly & Associates ...
This article is a list of standard proofreader's marks used to indicate and correct problems in a text. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the ...
17. 18. Lartiste feat. Caroliina. 19. 20. Notes. ^ "Zemër" is the second most-viewed Albanian music video on YouTube. ^ "Je m'appelle Funny Bear" is the most-viewed French music video of the 2000s, was the most-viewed French music video until 2014, and became the first French music video to surpass 100 million views in 2012.
A practice chanter made out of African blackwood by R.G. Hardie. A bagpipe practice chanter is a double-reed woodwind instrument, principally used as an adjunct to the Great Highland bagpipe. As its name implies, the practice chanter serves as a practice instrument: firstly for learning to finger the different melody notes of bagpipe music, and ...