Cantation

These words were jabbered as fast as ever tongue could utter them, and when he had finished, up he jumped, again commenced the same mad rotations, and broke into the same extravagant cantation as before.

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When we have come to hear thy sweet oblation Of love and joyance from thy sylvan station, Why, in the place of musical cantation, Balk us with pratings?

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For thirty years there has seemed to me no difference between phonation (speech) and cantation (song), save in the length of the basic vowel sounds.

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When we use it with the dying it has to do with helping people unbind from the body, so we provide a lot of music outside of time—Gregorian chant, Hebrew cantation [Chalice workers don't use only Christian music].

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