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Antiphony

noun
(pl. antiphonies)
1.
Alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts.
2.
A verse or song to be chanted or sung in response.  Synonym: antiphon.





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"Antiphony" Quotes from Famous Books



... where the sacrament was at that time kept, because of the repairs which were going on in the great Chapel; and all kneeling on their knees, and having recited the Pater-noster and the Ave-maria, the Abbot gave a sign, and the Precentor of the Convent began in plain descant the antiphony Salvator Mundi. And when the whole Convent had sung this, the Abbot said the verse Ostende nobis, and the verse Post partum virgo, and the prayer Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui es omnium dubitantium ...
— Chronicle Of The Cid • Various


Words linked to "Antiphony" :   antiphonal, antiphonary, gradual, antiphon, music, religious music, church music


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