religious chants
Devotional vocal prayers
Religious chants are repetitive, rhythmic vocalizations used in worship or spiritual practice.
Found across traditions—Gregorian chant in Christianity, dhikr in Islam, kirtan in Hinduism—they typically involve simple melodic phrases repeated to induce contemplation or devotion.
The monks' religious chants echoed through the monastery at dawn.
- KirtanDevotional call-and-response chanting
- sacred musicCompositions for worship
- monastic lifeReligious community living
- prayerAddress to deity
- holy silenceReverent wordless worship
Gregorian chant · chanting · singing · cantor · call and response · hymn · psalm · devotional songs · choir · prayer beads · antiphon · temple · repetition · incantation · echoing · droning · monks · spiritual
religious chantssecular music
Non-sacred musical works
drinking songs · bawdy songs · pop music · work songs · sea shanties
religious chantssilent prayer
Voiceless religious entreaty
silent meditation · quietude · monastic silence · silent retreats