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Anglican chant, also known as English chant,[1][2] is a way to sing unmetrical texts, including psalms and canticles from the Bible, by matching the natural speech-rhythm of the words to the notes of a simple harmonized melody.[3] This distinctive type of chant is a significant element of Anglican church music.

Anglican chant was formerly in widespread use in Anglican and Episcopal churches, but today, Anglican chant is sung primarily in Anglican cathedrals and parish churches that have retained a choral liturgical tradition. Additionally, Anglican chant may be sung in Roman Catholic,[4][5] Lutheran,[1][6][7] Presbyterian,[8][9] and Reformed[10][11] churches.

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Anglican chant grew out of the plainchant tradition during the English Reformation. When singing a text in Anglican chant, the natural rhythm of the words as they would be spoken by a careful speaker governs how the music is fitted to the words. The majority of the words are freely and rhythmically chanted over the reciting notes, which are found in the first, fourth, eighth, eleventh (etc.) bars of the chant and with the other notes of the music appropriately fitted to the words at the end of each half-verse. Formerly the rhythm of the non-reciting notes was strictly observed, but nowadays the rhythm is based on the natural cadence of speech. Thus, the length of each of these notes bears little relation to the normal musical value of a note such as a minim or semibreve.[12]

Anglican chant was well established by the 18th century. The earliest known examples are single chants written by John Blow, Henry Purcell, and their contemporaries. Earlier examples by Tudor composers such as Tallis, Farrant, and others are not original. The earliest double chants are from about 1700.

Another example of the color-pointed text for chant scores is the Vox Barnabas Psalter, a collection of public domain double chant scores by St. Barnabas Chorus, used to sing their Daily Office in Chant podcast of Morning, Noon, Evensong and Compline.

Various psalters have been published over the years, with each one showing how the chant is to be fitted to the words and each having its own variation on the precise rules for doing so. The rules used in the Parish Psalter (one of the more popular psalters, edited by Sydney Nicholson) are as follows:

Triple and quadruple chants are considerably rarer. They appeared from the latter part of the 19th century to cover some of the exceptions to this format. They set the verses of the psalm in groups of three or four verses respectively. Psalm 2 (for example) is suited to a triple chant; a quadruple chant might be used for Psalm 78.

If the entire text (or a section of it) has an odd number of verses, the second half of the chant is usually repeated at an appropriate point, which may be marked "2nd part". Similarly, "3rd part" markings may be used for triple chants.

A further stylistic technique is used in cathedrals and churches which use an antiphonal style of singing. In this case, the choir is divided into two equal half-choirs, each having representation for the four musical parts, and usually facing one another. They are typically named Decani (usually the half-choir to the south side) and Cantoris (usually the half-choir to the north side). Then the choir may employ either of the techniques known as quarter-chanting and half-chanting. In quarter-chanting (which is more true to the structure of the Hebrew poetry), the side that starts (usually decani) sing the first quarter of the chant (and thus the first half of the verse). The side that did not start (usually cantoris) then sing the second quarter of the chant (and thus the second half of the verse). This sequence then repeats. In half-chanting (which is more true to antiphonal singing in the Gregorian style), decani sing the first two quarters of the chant, and cantoris the next two quarters (so that each half-choir sings a whole verse at a time).

Included here are important introductory materials, a brief history of Psalm singing, and effective and time tested ways of successfully teaching and accompanying Anglican and Gregorian chant.

Anglican Chant is wholly Anglican and grew out of the Plainsong (Gregorian) chant tradition during the English Reformation. Anglican chant was well established by the 18th century and is a significant element of Anglican church music. Its composers are not anonymous and Anglican Chants are comprised of 4-part chants with harmonies sung together at the same time (homophony). Full Anglican Chants were reserved for choirs to sing in worship, but through the advent of Simplified Anglican Chant (about one quarter the length of Full Anglican Chant and with less complex chording), congregations could now enjoy this beautiful and historic Anglican style of singing the Psalms. The complete Psalter is included here with four melodically strong Full Anglican Chants (typeset in hymn style to now allow the congregation to learn) as well as four melodically strong settings in Simplified Anglican Chant. (Note: Anglican Chant is usually sung in unison by the congregation with a trained choir and/or keyboardist adding the harmonies beneath.)

First, have a song leader practice on a few people before trying to teach the whole congregation. This will help smooth any bumps on the road. Many have experienced placing the teaching time beginning ten minutes prior to worship to be highly effective. For teaching chant, try this time-tested componenting pedagogy (breaking the whole down into manageable steps) for both Anglican and Gregorian Chant: (1) Tell the worshippers that chanting the Psalms is a long and beautiful tradition in our Anglican heritage. The word Psalm actually means sacred song. Then let the worshipers know that over the next several Sundays that you are going to explore together the roots of chant and each week they will hear and enjoy improvement together. Set the bar high and be positive, loving, and inviting right from the get-go.

(2) Now share with them that the foundation of all good chanting begins with the rhythm of speech. Begin by modeling for the worshipers by you speaking two lines of the Psalm, as if reading good poetry aloud. Now have the congregation do it with you with the goal that they listen to one another in community and begin to speak together well in unison. The song leader gently pulsing his or her hand in the air on the stressed syllables can also be a helpful visual aid. I underline the key stressed words or syllables beforehand when I am teaching or leading a chant.

(3) Now, model singing for them with what you have just said together in speech rhythm sung on a unison pitch (probably the note A). After the congregation hears the song leader model good unison chant, then have the worshippers do it a couple of times themselves. Be encouraging and be accepting, whatever you get. There will be time to hone things in subsequent teaching times.

(4) Now move on to singing and modeling the chant melody, or have the accompanist play the melody for the worshippers one or two times. And now have them sing the melody together on loo or lah enough times that they have it down well enough to on to the next level.

And finally, perhaps using the same chant setting for several weeks before moving onto a new one would be helpful to the congregation in their learning of the chants. (Note: it would be a good thing if the parishes of the Province adopted the use of the chant settings presented here so that there was a common repertoire of Psalm settings across the whole of our communion. Additionally, if your congregation already has a repertoire of musical settings for the Psalms, the pointing of the Psalms here is easily adaptable to already known repertoire.

Anglican chant is a method of singing prose translations of the Psalms, canticles, and other similar texts. As the name implies, it is used primarily in Anglican churches. See the Wikipedia article for an overview. A valuable catalogue of the standard collections is Ton Meijer's An index to Anglican Chants.

I've read this often enough to say "there it is again" when I see it, but it seems to be a popular opinion (or have been so a few generations ago) that congregations and amateur choirs are bad at Anglican chant.

I might be showing my lack of musical refinement here (a glance at my Spotify playlists will confirm it), but why? A simple chant is ten chords, repeated the length of the text being recited, and all at fairly normal speaking rhythm. How would a choir that's expected to sing a new anthem every week not be able to nail a few simple chants? Laypeople, it makes a little more sense that they might not be able to "feel" where to change pitch, but even then, it seems like something a little exposure would fix handily.

Practically speaking, the power and genius of SAC is its ability to allow Christians to simply and beautifully sing the actual words of the Psalms, without any alteration necessary. And please note: the Psalter as given in the Prayer Book tradition is specifically set up with chant in mind. Versification in other translations, such as the ESV, will not work as well. See page 268 of the 2019 Book of Common Prayer for more on how our Psalter is specifically designed for private and public worship.

Anglican chant is, as I hinted at above, undoubtedly a development from late mediaeval fa-burden, which was a method of chanting the psalm tones with improvised harmony. It continued in practice, as has been noted below, until relatively recent times, and survives today in some places.

Sib. 5.x: Anglican Chant - note spacing

Posted by Philip Ingram - 09 Sep 11:57AM Hide picture Laying out chants so that they fit neatly across a sheet of A4 defeated me until I amended the note spacing. My chant "House Style" now has note spacing rules note spacing rules as follow:

Empty Bar 4

Before first note in bar 1.5

short notes 0.41

semiquaver 0.5

quaver 0.69

crotchet 1

minim 2

semibreve 3

breve 4

If any of the real experts here (I'm not one) have better settings, especially for the "minimum space", I'd be happy to adopt them. Meanwhile those above may help newcomers struggling with their chants.

Regards,

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Posted by James Gilbert - 10 Sep 02:51PM Hide picture I'm interested in an answer too.

In the meanwhile, are you putting the words in the music like you would when doing vocal or choral music? If so, I've never come up with a satisfactory way of doing it.

When I've had to do this, I was asked to put the 7 measures of music (4-part hymnal style) at the top of the page, without any lyrics. The lyrics were then placed beneath the music, labeled with verses. See just about every Anglican and Episcopal hymnal for examples like this.

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Posted by Philip Ingram - 10 Sep 06:13PM Hide picture I can only recall one example of a chant with lyrics written under it and that is the Charles Villiers Stanford setting of Psalm 150. There may be others - memory lapses with time!

I append a .png of a screenshot of a double chant (14 bars) in preparation in OpenOffice Writer with the chant pasted in from Sibelius 5. I apologise for blanking out the second half of the chant but I don't have time to check its copyright status. The pale grey framework will disappear when printed. The choir knows that bold syllables are emphasised, verses numbered in square brackets [2] and printed in italics run through between bars 3 and 4 and underlined text is treated as a triplet.

Underlining triplets is not a very satisfactory alternative to the traditional way of marking triplets much as in the score with a sort of horizontal square bracket broken by a figure 3. If anyone can suggest a way of doing this, I'd much appreciate hearing about it.

Regards,

Philip Attachment Psalm122chant+text.png (40K) Back to top | Allthreads Re: Sib. 5.x: Anglican Chant - note spacing

Posted by James Gilbert - 12 Sep 02:04PM Hide picture I've never seen words under chant either. As you have it is the way I've seen it (without the first two columns in the words). I have written it with words under so I can follow as I play on the organ. I have trouble jumping back and forth.

The only suggestion I would make is leave out the underlines. With three syllables and two notes, it just about has to be sung as a triplet.

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Posted by Sarah Garner - 08 Nov 05:42PM Hide picture Hi there,

I am a newbie to Sibelius, using 6.2, but in trying to find a work-around for chant notation, I came across your thread.

Our church uses plainsong chant, which is notated in LilyPond by a computer guru. However, when we use Anglican or Episcopal chant, I use a work-around where the first syllable under the recitation is typed like a regular lyric. Then I "fill in" the other syllables with plain text, and scoot measures left and right until the text fits in.

My more primitive software that I used to use let you link words (with spaces in the score) by using the underscore---for example, if I typed My_soul_doth_magnify in the old software, it would have kept that whole phrase under one note.

The work-around is time consuming, but it works. I discovered today as I was scoring Clifford Boyd's Magnificat that I needed to get all the lyrics, notes, staff spacing, etc., done, and then add the extra lyrics. I did a lot of scooting around, but I think it looks pretty good.

I'm about to undertake James Jordan's Psalm 7 (it's in the Anglican style, four-part but with the recitation/inflection) and it will be a doozy.

I hope this helps! Attachment Clifford Boyd Magnificat.sib (41K) Back to top | Allthreads Re: Sib. 5.x: Anglican Chant - note spacing

Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 08 Nov 08:37PM Hide picture Use Ctrl+Space to create a non-breaking space in lyrics in Sibelius.

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Posted by Sarah Garner - 08 Nov 09:49PM (edited 08 Nov 10:01PM) Hide picture Um, wow. I've been looking everywhere for this---every tutorial I can find on the internet for chant notation and have never seen this. This is going to save a TON of work, since we have hundreds of chants we need to notate. Daniel, you're a lifesaver. :)

I just tried it, though, and I wonder---is it possible to left-justify under the note when you start the long line of syllables? The first B whole note is centered under the phrase "put down the mighty from their" and it makes it a little difficult to see where the recitation starts. Still way better than the manual way . . . but here is an example of where I fight the magnetic layout because of the way the measure width snaps. I can align the lyric line under the Bb but then I run out of space and don't know how to force the Bb closer to the eighth notes at the beginning of the measure.

Thanks again! I'll play with it some more. Back to top | Allthreads Re: Sib. 5.x: Anglican Chant - note spacing

Posted by JL Hughes - 08 Nov 10:22PM Hide picture Hi there

To left-justify a long line of text to a single note, do the following:

a. temporarily turn your long note into two shorter notes.

b. Enter (or open) the text for editing, and then press space twice, so that Sibelius now sees the lyric object as being sung on two notes. This will align it as you wish.

c. return the note-value to its original state.

Hope that helps

Jeremy

music editor/engraver

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Posted by Sarah Garner - 08 Nov 10:49PM Hide picture That did it! I think that will work beautifully. I'm learning this as a baptism by fire, having to engrave 90 psalms, hymns, and chants in 3 weeks. I'm getting much better, but right now I don't have time to immerse myself in tutorials and such that are available. I appreciate everyone taking the time to help me out here.