Italian question
  • CGM
    Posts: 700
    A friend of mine is a writer, and knowing that I'm a church musician, asked me the following question:
    In Italian, is there an equivalent for our verb "to chant," or do they just have one verb which encompasses every type of singing?

    I don't know the answer. Anyone care to comment?
  • PaxTecum
    Posts: 314
    Its just the one verb: cantare.

    The noun chant is “il canto” or more specifically “il canto gregoriano”
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  • PaxTecum
    Posts: 314
    See: http://wordreference.com/iten/canto
  • francis
    Posts: 10,828
    You can’t fight the rubrics of the NO with reason or language... find a TLM so you can sing the “chant” without being defensive
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