Anglican chant

Additionally, Anglican chant may be sung in Roman Catholic,[4][5] Lutheran,[1][6][7] Presbyterian,[8][9] and Reformed[10][11] churches.

The majority of the words are freely and rhythmically chanted over the reciting notes, which are found in the first, fourth, eighth, eleventh (etc.)

bars of the chant and with the other notes of the music appropriately fitted to the words at the end of each half-verse.

The earliest known examples are single chants written by John Blow, Henry Purcell, and their contemporaries.

Below are the first four verses of the Magnificat, with the text coloured to show which words correspond to which notes in the music ("the chant").

Various psalters have been published over the years, with each one showing how the chant is to be fitted to the words and each having its own variation on the precise rules for doing so.

If the entire text (or a section of it) has an odd number of verses, the second half of the chant is usually repeated at an appropriate point, which may be marked "2nd part".

An example of a double chant: Below are the four lines of the doxology Gloria Patri (commonly known as the "Gloria"), with the text coloured to show which words correspond to which notes in the music (pointing varies from choir to choir): Glory be to the Father, and ' to the ' Son : and ' to the ' Holy ' Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ' ever ' shall be : world without ' end A ' - - ' men.

In quarter-chanting (which is more true to the structure of the Hebrew poetry), the side that starts (usually decani) sing the first quarter of the chant (and thus the first half of the verse).