Chant

Chant
This interesting and unusual surname is of Old French origin, and is a metonymic occupational name for a singer in a chantry, a chorister or precentor. The derivation is from the Old Norman-French "cant", Old French "chant", singing, song. Job descriptive surnames originally denoted the actual occupation of the namebearer, and later became hereditary. Early examples of the surname include: Richard Caunt (Huntingdonshire, 1357); William Cant, a tenant under the Douglases in the barony of Aberdoure, Fifeshire, 1376; and Richard Cante, noted in the Register of Arbroath Abbey, Scotland, 1485. In the modern idiom the name has three variant spellings Cant, Chaunt and Chant. On June 10th 1576, Margaret Chaunt and John Bowyer were married at St. Christopher le Stocks, London, and on July 14th 1689, Susana Chant married a Samuel Beer at St. Mary's, Marylebone Road, London. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard Cante, which was dated 1327, in the "Subsidy Rolls of Suffolk", during the reign of King Edward 111, known as "The Father of the Navy", 1327 - 1377. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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  • CHANT — Le chant est d’abord expression naturelle de l’être humain, que la voix soit belle ou non, éduquée ou non. Qu’il soit plaisir pur, qu’il ait vocation cultuelle, esthétique ou cathartique, qu’il se réclame de traditions millénaires ou des formes… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • chant — 1. (chan) s. m. 1°   Sorte de modification de la voix humaine par laquelle on forme des sons variés, appréciables et soumis à des intervalles réguliers. •   Il nous entretint de l usage où l on a toujours été de mêler le chant aux plaisirs de la… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • chant — CHANT. subst. masc. Élévation et inflexion de voix sur différens tons, avec modulation. Beau chant. Chant agréable, harmonieux, mélodieux. Chant triste, lugubre. Chant d alégresse. Chant de triomphe. Chant nuptial. Chant pastoral. Mettre un air… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • chant — s. m. Eslevation & inflexion de voix sur differents tons, avec quelque sorte d harmonie. Beau chant. chant agreable. harmonieux, melodieux. chant triste, lugubre. chant d allegresse. chant de triomphe. chant nuptial. il ne met pas bien cet air en …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Chant — Chant, n. [F. chant, fr. L. cantus singing, song, fr. canere to sing. See {Chant}, v. t.] 1. Song; melody. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mus.) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Chant 2 — Studio album by Merzbow Released 1985 Genre Noise Length 47:48 …   Wikipedia

  • Chant — Chant, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chanted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chanting}.] [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. {Cant} affected speaking, and see {Hen}.] 1. To utter with a melodious voice; to sing. [1913 Webster] The cheerful… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • CHANT — CHANT, MUSIQUE, MÉLOPÉE, GESTICULATION, SALTATION. Questions sur ces objets.     Un Turc pourra t il concevoir que nous ayons une espèce de chant pour le premier de nos mystères, quand nous le célébrons en musique; une autre espèce, que nous… …   Dictionnaire philosophique de Voltaire

  • chant — Chant, Cantus. Commencer le chant, Praecinere. Quand on va disant un chant, Fundere sonum. Un chant de dueil sur la mort d un trespassé, Naenia, aut Naeniae, naeniarum. Chant de plusieurs instrumens d accord, qui accordent ensemble, Symphoniae… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Chant — Chant, v. i. 1. To make melody with the voice; to sing. Chant to the sound of the viol. Amos vi. 5. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mus.) To sing, as in reciting a chant. [1913 Webster] {To chant horses} or {To chaunt horses}, to sing their praise; to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • chant — [chant, chänt] n. [Fr < L cantus, song < the v.] 1. a song; melody 2. a) a simple liturgical song in which a string of syllables or words is sung to each tone b) words, as of a canticle or psalm, to be sung in this way 3. a) …   English World dictionary

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