Chants and Raps

Types of Chants and Raps

1. Chants and Raps Prepared by: Maricar Cedro , Lpt

2. CHANTS Chants are defined as a rhythmic group recitation. Chants are like nursery and skipping rhymes, they have lots of repetition and they are also rich in musical qualities. Chants can also be defined as a short and simple series of words that are sung on the same note.

3. Chants (from French chanter) are the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes to highly complex musical structures,

4. often including a great deal of repetition of musical subphrases , such as Great Responsories and Offertories of Gregorian chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized form of speech. 

5. TYPES OF CHANTS

6. Battle Chants A type of chants heard on ancient battlefields. protesters will use chants that are used by many groups which only a few words change to reflect their particular topic.

7. auctioneers use auction-chants or bid calling to focus the buyer's attention on the bidding process and drive up the price of the items for sale.

8. Cheerleading Chants These are typically short, quick and very much to the point. whether you need a quick filler in between plays, some fast encouragement to urge your team on to victory or a cute cheer that will be easily for your squad to remember, you can find a chant to fit your needs.

9. Funny Chant This chant entertain the crowds because they actually make up their own chants based on something funny happened to their friends or incidents that the fans think are humorous

10. Raps (also known as rap music, emceeing, spitting (bars), or rhyming) refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components where it is separated into "content", "flow" (rhythm and rhyme), and "delivery". Rapping is distinct from spoken word poetry in that it is performed in time to a beat.

11. It strike a hard surface with rapid hard blows so as to attract somebody's attention

12. It is also used to show that somebody can perform rap music

13. A form of popular music or a poetic that has a rhyme model. it emphasizes rhymes that are spoken over heavily rhythmic backing tracks

14. TYPES OF RAPS

15. Gangsta Rap is a subgenre of hip hop music that evolved from hardcore hip hop & purports to reflect urban crime and the violent lifetimes of inner-city youths

16. Alternative Raps Is a subgenre of hip hop that revolves around varieties of rap and hip hop genres  Refers to hip hop groups that refuse conform to any of the stereotypes of raps, such as gangsta , bass, hardcore, and party rap.

17. Political Rap Is a subgenre of hip hop music that developed in the 1980s. inspired by 1970s political researchers such as the last poets and Gil Scottheron , and public enemy were the first hip hop group

18. What are the Similarities and differences of Chants & Raps ?

19. Similarities: Both are rhythmic forms of Speaking

20. Rapping is trying to say as fast as you can, or saying lines fast but keeping to a two-fourth beat while Chanting is a form of poetry in form and rhyming words as well as two-fourth 

21. Differences Chanting refers to the monotonous or singsong intonation in speech while Rapping is today's term for fast chanting

22. Carolyn Graham claims (2006) Jazz Chant is a rhythmic expression of natural language which links the rhythms of spoken American English to the rhythms of traditional American jazz.

23. The rhythms, stress and intonation pattern of the chant should be an exact replica of what the student would hear from an educated native speaker in natural conversation

24. Carolyn Graham discovered Jazz Chants only by accident while playing the piano in one bar. Her friend came to her said several words in which she could feel exactly the music beat she was playing. That way she found the connection between traditional American jazz and spoken American English.

25. The music for chants is often taken from some traditional English songs so the children can concentrate on the words and rhythm more because they already know the melody from the original songs, for instance melodies from Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star or Are You Sleeping. (Graham, 2006)

26. The rhythms, stress and intonation pattern of the chant should be an exact replica of what the student would hear from an educated native speaker in natural conversation