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Usage examples of chants.

Tahvo continued to sleep, untroubled by the comings and goings of villagers bringing food, or the solemn healers with their chants and herbal concoctions.

Your chants of hammer, forge and spade Will move the prairie-village yet.

The Ascension depended on an intricate string of chants and songs that would lead the soul of the one ascending into the Long Sleep in perfect harmony with the One Voice.

As late as the 1950s, however, some Hawaiians still knew the chants and gifts that would please Her and petition Her mercy.

Powerful chants honor the history of Her wrath, impatience, violence, and Her force in shaping the land.

Hula dancers today derive chants for dance preparation and conversations between lovers or family members.

Huitaca whirled in the center fast as fire, and Her chants spun men to men, men to women, women to each other, and back again the other way.

Sometimes, however, the full gorgeousness of Byzantine art shines through this music, and the gold-dusty modes, the metallic flatness of the pentatonic scale, the mystic twilit chants and brazen trumpet-calls make us see the mosaics of Ravenna, the black and gold ikons of Russian churches, the aureoled saints upon bricked walls, the minarets of the Kremlin.

Liszt and Brahms, Moussorgsky composed as though he had been born into a world in which there was no musical tradition, a world where, indeed, no fine musical literature, and only a few folk-songs and orthodox liturgical chants and Greek-Catholic scales existed.

Borodin had turned in prophetic ecstasy upon modern Russia and bade it ring its bells and sound its chants, bade it push onward with its old faith and vigor, since the Slavonic grandeur and glory were assured.

For through the savage trumpet-blasts and rude and lumbering rhythms, through the cymbal-crashing Mongol marches and warm, uncouth peasant chants that are his music, there surges that vision, that sense of immanent glory, that fortifying asseveration.

For this man, indeed, the reliques, the trappings, the minaret-crowned monuments, the barbaric chants and gold ornaments, all the thousand rich things that recalled Muscovy and the buried empire to him, and that he loved so dearly, were valuable chiefly because they were the emblems of the time that bore the happy present.

And to the popular and to the liturgical chants they went in search of their proper idiom.

For what they inwardly were was close akin to the breath, the spirit, the touch, that had invented those chants, and built those minarets and wrought that armor and composed those epics.

For Rimsky-Korsakoff was something of a philosophical authority on the music of the many peoples of the Empire, made collections of chants, and could draw on this fund for his work.