Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name)
5. musical compositions
6. songs (musical compositions)

Narrower term/s

• Gregorian chants
• Ambrosian chants
• Anglican chants
• Armenian chants
• Beneventan chants
• Buddhist chants
• Byzantine chants
• Chaldean chants
• Maori chants
• Coptic chants
• Ethiopian chants
• Hawaiian chants
• Hindu chants
• Jewish chants
• Mozarabic chants
• Syrian chants
• Sufi chants
• Navajo chants
• plainsong
• cuicatl (song)

Anotations

Scope note:

Religious or contemplative songs of a particular type; may be monophonic and more or less extended (as Gregorian chant: see Gregorian, or else short and formulaic, usually harmonized, and adjusted to the syllables of a prose text.