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Antiphon   Listen
noun
Antiphon  n.  
1.
A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.
2.
A verse said before and after the psalms.





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"Antiphon" Quotes from Famous Books



... the service of the Holy Communion, as S. Augustine celebrated it, and our English forefathers first came to know it? If, as we suppose, it was the Roman, it would proceed thus. First an antiphon, which came to be called an introit, or psalm of entrance, with a verse having special reference to the lesson of the day or season, was sung, as the priest, wearing a long white surplice or alb and a chasuble ...
— The Church and the Barbarians - Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 • William Holden Hutton
... of literature was created: the oratorical. Antiphon was the earliest in date alike of the Athenian orators and of the professors of eloquence. In a crowd after him came Isocrates, Andocides, Lysias, Aeschines, Hyperides, and the master of them all, that astonishing logician, that impassioned ...
— Initiation into Literature • Emile Faguet


Words linked to "Antiphon" :   antiphony, religious music, church music, antiphonal, antiphonary, gradual


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