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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

le chant sacré

English translation:

sacred vocal music

Added to glossary by Gayle Wallimann
May 3, 2005 21:46
19 yrs ago
French term

le chant sacré

French to English Other Music
This concept repeats a lot in this context. Please look at the examples.

Context:

Dans quel type de répertoire vous évoluez ?
Anne: Je suis dans une chorale dans laquelle nous pratiquons le chant sacré mais par ailleurs, je prends des cours de comédie musicale et des cours de chant technique.

Pascal: Rock, hard rock, comédie musicale à mes débuts et depuis trois ans, je me suis orienté vers un répertoire plus classique (grégorien, baroque, musique romantique, contemporain, folklore).

Marthe: Mon répertoire est principalement celui du chant sacré mais ça peut aussi être plus large: chants folkloriques étrangers, chœurs d'opéra, contemporain et negro spiritual.

Gersande: Le chant sacré aussi mais par ailleurs, je suis dans des formations où l'on chante l'opérette et des chants a capella (tous registres confondus).

Claudine: Un répertoire dans le domaine du sacré, essentiellement le gospel!
Proposed translations (English)
5 +8 sacred music OR sacred vocal music OR religious music
5 -1 sacred chant
3 +1 church music
3 sacred songs

Proposed translations

+8
1 hr
French term (edited): le chant sacr�
Selected

sacred music OR sacred vocal music OR religious music

For a singer, it is usually not needed to specify "vocal" music - sacred is enough.

In English, "song" may imply non-classical music in the context of religious music.
Peer comment(s):
agree celandine : sacred music
9 mins
agree Charlie Bavington : religious sounds OK to me in this context. I can't visualise lay people talking about "sacred" music in this kind of interview in English.
34 mins
It's a question of tone & context. "Religious" is certainly the everyday term, but "sacred" is the normal term in the context of "serious" music.
agree Patrice : agree that sacred is enough
34 mins
agree Can Altinbay : Actually, since these people actively do sing these things, they would use a term such as sacred.
3 hrs
agree suezen : sacred music
5 hrs
neutral writeaway : your refs are definitely closer to the cultural belly button. very convincing indeed. how would you translate 'la musique sacrée, la musique religieuse ?
8 hrs
;-)) Luckily, that's easy to translate - it's just difficult to figure out if the author is making a distinction between the two, or repeating themselves.
agree Angela Dickson (X) : these are viable options in this context
12 hrs
agree Gayle Wallimann : Sacred vocal music
14 hrs
agree RHELLER : religious chants
3 days 6 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "religious music sounds good in this context. thanks"
-1
4 mins
French term (edited): le chant sacr�

sacred chant

At least, that's the term I hear.
Peer comment(s):
disagree David Vaughn : Sacred chant is usually something like Gregorian or Tibetan - as distinguished from more melodic singing.
1 hr
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+1
1 hr
French term (edited): le chant sacr�

church music

just another option for you, given it's highly likely that these good people started off singing in church choirs, by the sound of things.

However I will concede that this goes against my "better generally right than specifically wrong" rule, so perhaps "religious" might be safer.
Peer comment(s):
neutral David Vaughn : Church choirs are much less pervasive in France than in Anglo countries. But chorals are very popular. The fact that these people DO seem to be singing in a sacred music group does increase the likelyhood they have sung in church.
8 hrs
Fair point. I've only been to church once in France, and there wasn't a choir, now you mention it......:-)
agree RHELLER : yes, the music was written when people did go to church - this is not modern stuff
3 days 5 hrs
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12 mins
French term (edited): le chant sacr�

sacred songs

Ville de Nevers - [ Translate this page ]
... Le Chant sacré de l’Est et de l’Ouest. Sacred Songs - East & West Geistliche Gesänge aus Ost und West Dir. Eliane Lavail (F) & Nicolai Kornev (RUS) ...
www.ville-nevers.fr/evenements/ culture/europac/europaca10.htm



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Note added at 9 hrs 8 mins (2005-05-04 06:55:32 GMT)
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a few more refs, a bit closer to the cultural belly button perhaps...

Sacred Songs & Arias BWV 439-507 - Recordings - Part 1
... Sacred Songs & Arias from the Songbook of GC Schemelli. Event. Composed ...
Schemelli\'s Musicalisches Songbook - 57 sacred songs ...
www.bach-cantatas.com/Vocal/BWV439-507.htm -

Sacred Songs of Sorrow
Sacred Songs of Sorrow. ... Sacred songs from Protestant Germany of the late 16th and early 17th century. Title Page Programme Notes Commentaire Kommentar ...
www.signumrecords.com/catalogue/sigcd018/ -

Subject headings for choruses vs. cantatas; songs vs. solo cantatas
... Sacred songs, Neither is implied for solo cantatas; ... Sacred songs (Medium voice), Solo cantatas, Secular (High voice) ...
www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/chorcant.htm

Various Artists Chants Sacres De Sanaa (Sacred Songs From Sanaa) CD
Low prices on Various Artists Chants Sacres De Sanaa (Sacred Songs From Sanaa) music album at CDUniverse, the Internet\'s best online store, with top rated ...
www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/ 1824166/a/Chants+Sacres+De+Sanaa+(Sacred+Songs+From+Sanaa).htm

Dave\'s JS Bach Works Catalog - Vocal Works - Sacred Songs - [
Sacred Songs. BWV 519-523 · Sacred Songs. Fünf geistliche Lieder. Chants sacrés.
Instrumentation:. Singstimme mit Cont. 519 ·, Hier lieg ich nun, ...
www.jsbach.net/catalog/01140000000.html

[PDF] MUSIQUE VOCALE VOCAL MUSIC
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
... Chants sacrés acc. de piano / Sacred songs with piano. SIGLES DE LOCALISATION -
LOCATION SYMBOLS. MRT. MORISSET / Collection générale - General ...
www.biblio.uottawa.ca/mrt/eclairs/voc-mus.pdf

Hancock & Monks - Second hand CDs
... ALAGNA, Roberto: Chants Sacrés: Bach/Gounod, Franck, Adam, Fauré, Berlioz,
... ALAGNA, Roberto: Sanctus: Sacred Songs: Bach/Gounod, Franck, Adam, Fauré, ...
www.hancockandmonks.co.uk/usedmo.htm

hants Sacres: Sacred Songs by Various Artists
Chants Sacres: Sacred Songs by Various Artists Jump to: Track List * Credits *. ....
Got MUSICMATCH MX? TRACK LISTING Send this Track Listing to a friend ...
www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/ album/album.cgi?ALBUMID=1322855

Peer comment(s):
neutral David Vaughn : "Songs" is seldom used to refer to religious classical music. Protestants will refer to hymns. I think "songs" gives the idea of foreign music. Note that your quote is a French translation from a small town that is not exactly the cultural "belly button".
1 hr
religious classical music? hymns are a kind of sacred song but there are others. not all sacred music is vocal. I only gave one reference; sorry you don't like it.
neutral Angela Dickson (X) : these people seem to sing in choirs - 'song' implies a solo singer in most of these refs.
12 hrs
it's just the name of a type of music. never knew that 'song' implies a solo singer. An aria certainly does......
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