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Possibly the best known Advent song is “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,” which has a solemn, chantlike melody that dates back to 15th century France.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2022
Eno sings slow, chantlike phrases, and his lyrics favor open vowels rather than crisp consonants.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022
Drawn with feathered lines and in coded colors, the words are individual images that collectively form a chantlike piece of concrete poetry.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2020
Extended drones, chantlike repeating phrases, tolling chords, spacious reverberation: Those are meditative sounds, defying fracture or interruption, tuning out the momentary and the trivial, invoking concentration, absorption, ritual and rapture.
From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2019
The child’s voice never faltered, never ceased, but delivered the curious phrases in an eerie, chantlike progression.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
