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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



... man stirs a finger, breathes a sound, But all the multitudinous beings round In all the countless worlds, with time and place For their conditions, down to the central base, Thrill, haply, in vibration and rebound; Life answering life across the vast profound, In full antiphony, by a common grace?— I think this sudden joyaunce, which illumes A child's mouth sleeping, unaware may run From some soul breaking new the bond of tombs: I think this passionate sigh, which, half begun, I stifle back, may ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 • Various


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


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