A Brief Overview of Chant Notation • The foundation of modern written music notation • Easier to read than modern notation • Takes less space on the page than modern notation. • Chant is made up of small groupings of organized notes • Each group

As traditional liturgical chants are based on the rhythm of the texts, there is no time signature, either in the Bakhmetev Obikhod or in this tutorial. The half note is the predominant pulse, which in the chant is equivalent to a single beat. The recitati

The auction chant – also known as “bid calling” – is a rhythmic, repetition of numbers and filler words chanted by an auctioneer during the course of an auction. The inflection and cadence of a skilled auctioneer’s voice will hypnotize bidders i