### art | music | song:

Bird song
* Many bird songs have regional distinguishing differences in dialect.
* Most bird song is of high frequency.
* are a form of tactile communication
  - basically related to reproductive activities in one way or another
  - long, complicated and repetitive
  - the result of imitation and account for development of bird-language in the past
* call from nests high in the forest canopy.
* calls attention back from thought to the actual world in time.
* float in the air.
* series of notes that are repeated in more or less the same sequence.

Chant
* Most chants involve repetition of a simple phrase, to help deepen devotion and feeling in the heart.
* are music
* can get people into a specific ritual mindset - calming and soothing and centering.
* is church music

### art | music | song | chant:

Gregorian chant
* are divided into three types based on the number of notes sung to each syllable
  - plainsong
* exudes a feeling of sacredness and formality.
* has neither meter nor regular rhythm
  - no music, just singers singing the same lines
* is an example of a cappella singing
  - the foundation of all liturgical music in the Western Christian tradition
* remains among the most spiritually moving and profound music in western culture.
+ A cappella: Singing
  * It was first used in religious music. Gregorian chant is an example of a cappella singing.

Folk ballad
* are still popular despite the invention of the television or the symphony orchestra.
* is folk music

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Folk song
* Some folk songs demonstrate common dreams of people or criticize disgrace practices.
* are always simple songs, of simple people for simple people
  - communal compositions
  - melodies with accompanying verses
  - monophonic and traditionally sung without harmony
  - ones that have been handed down from one generation to the next
  - part of our oral tradition
  - what make our identity
  - part of folk music
* represent the musical expressions of the common people.
+ Folk music
  * It is traditional music that people learn by listening to other people playing it and then copying them. Every country has its own traditional music. Folk song is part of folk music.

Folksong
* are important in both sacred and secular culture.
* is folk music
+ Musical mode: Music theory
  * Some composers in recent centuries have enjoyed using the ancient modes from time to time in their music. Folksongs are often 'modal'. Greensleeves is an example of a well-known tune which is modal.
+ Pentatonic scale
  * Many folksongs are pentatonic, or nearly pentatonic.

Love song
* are often synonymous with eminent emotional moments and memories in our lives.
* are part of our culture
  - the myth of our society

Lullaby
* Lullabies abound in all the Celtic countries
  - always have a gentle, rocking rhythm with a simple accompaniment. * always have a gentle, rocking rhythm with a simple accompaniment. There are many other examples
* Lullabies are a universal expression of love
  - more than just songs for putting children to sleep
  - sootings
* Lullabies includes chapters
  - paragraphs
  - word order

Oldie
* are for babies
  - mini-operas
* niche format.
* unique body of musical taste.

Spiritual
* Most spirituals refer to people or events in the Bible.
* are now one of the best-known forms of American music.
* is church music

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Spiritual abuse
* is always about the misuse of power and authority.
* occurs when spirituality is used to make others live up to a spiritual standard.

Spiritual consciousness
* changes our beliefs about time.
* is the source of perfect balance and health in every cell of the body.