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Last winter, noticing a surge in sales of chant as well as the runaway success of the futuristic, sci-fi videogame Halo — which uses chantlike melodies throughout its soundtrack — Tom Lewis, an A&R executive at Universal Music Classics, launched a kind of "Pop Idol" contest for Gregorian chant, which he advertised in Catholic papers throughout Britain.

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John experiments with tape loops, and strange chords, in the chantlike endings of "Good Morning" and "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid" -- endings that would be elaborated on in "I Am The Walrus" and "Hey Jude."

Taoist Beatles Propaganda Sparrow 2006

The Matriarch's deep voice begins a chantlike spell.

Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

They came, singing too, their voices at last providing the main body of the chantlike round of the other creatures:

Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

She held her arms out for me, and I went to her so she could embrace me, rocking back and forth as she spoke in a chantlike voice.

Crystal V.C. Andrews 1998

She held her arms out for me, and I went to her so she could embrace me, rocking back and forth as she spoke in a chantlike voice.

Crystal V.C. Andrews 1998

The spectral knight's voice became a chantlike whisper.

Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995

"Do not resist it," Morhion said in a chantlike voice.

Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995

Many of the men were making lowtoned noises with their mouths, and these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, barbaric song that went as an undercurrent of sound, strange and chantlike with the resounding chords of the war march.

The Red Badge of Courage 1895

Many of the men were making low-toned noises with their mouths, and these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, barbaric song that went as an undercurrent of sound, strange and chantlike with the resounding chords of the war march.

The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1895