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Antiphony   Listen
noun
Antiphony  n.  (pl. antiphonies)  
1.
A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.
2.
An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. "O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony."





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"Antiphony" Quotes from Famous Books



... was a local one, but was believed by many to have been inspired by a celestial antiphony. The remarkable sounds were either a miracle or a psychic wonder born of the intense imagination of a sensitive race. A few pious people in a small village of Montgomeryshire had been making special prayer for an outpouring ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
... trees My fathers planted, and I loved so well! What have I done that, like some fabled crime Of yore, lets loose a Fury leading thus Her miserable dance amidst you all? Oh, never more for me shall winds intone With all your tops a vast antiphony, Demanding and responding in God's praise! Hers ye ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke
... joined with a broken and uncertain cadence: the mingling of many little waves not yet gathered into rhythm and harmony. Soon the longer, stronger billows of song rolled in, sweeping from side to side as the men and the women answered in the clear antiphony. ...
— The Blue Flower, and Others • Henry van Dyke


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


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