Christian music

=== Chants===
A chant is the iterative speaking or [[singing]] of [[word]]s or [[sound]]s, often primarily on one or two main [[pitch (music)|pitch]]es called [[reciting tone]]s.  Chants may range from a simple [[melody]] involving a limited set of [[note (music)|note]]s to highly complex musical structures, often including a great deal of [[Repetition (music)|repetition]] of musical subphrases, such as Great Responsories and [[Offertory|Offertories]] of [[Gregorian chant]].  Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized form of speech. In the later [[Middle Ages]] some religious chant evolved into song (forming one of the roots of later Western music).<ref>{{cite book |last=Stolba |first=K. Marie |year=1994 |title=The Development of Western Music: A History |edition=2nd |publisher=[[McGraw Hill]] |isbn=9780697293794 |pages=734 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8UZAQAAIAAJ}}</ref>

Mostly used in Anglican, Catholic, and Orthodox churches. Some examples of chants are:
*[[Ambrosian chant]]
*[[Anglican chant]]
*[[Armenian chant]]
*[[Celtic chant]]
*[[Ethiopian chant]]
*[[Galician chant]]
*[[Gregorian chant]]
*[[Kievan chant]]
*[[Mozarabic chant]]
*[[Old Roman chant]]
*[[Syriac chant]]