antiphony
Americannoun
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alternate or responsive singing by a choir in two divisions.
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a psalm, verse, etc., so sung; antiphon.
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a responsive musical utterance.
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the antiphonal singing of a musical composition by two choirs
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any musical or other sound effect that answers or echoes another
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The massive space of the Albert Hall was perfect for this work, evoking not just the strophic religious responses on which Boulez based the piece but the antiphony of the Italian baroque, too.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2012
And if nothing else, his antiphony intellectualism procedures show that there are some men in the educational field who understand the plight of the ordinary college student.
From Time Magazine Archive
In nagging antiphony he and his pouter-pigeon wife, Barbara Bel Geddes, sing the have-not-got-enough blues of a deceptively affluent suburbia.
From Time Magazine Archive
One bleak, rainy day, a litany inviting antiphony sprang to Jackson's lips that be came his slogan and made him a celebrity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Gabrielis also experimented with placing clusters of singers and instrumentalists in different pockets of the building, a technique known as antiphony, meaning ‘voices against each other’, or poly choral, ‘many choirs’.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
The singing voices of summer were all a-throb, filling the air with great antiphonies of praise, till this good June day was fairly wild with the sheer joy of life.
From The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies by Connor, Ralph
One after the other, like the antiphonies in the choral service, rise Fanny and the rose in June, then back again the rose in June and Fanny.
From The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc by De Quincey, Thomas
We ended with antiphonies of praise for this descendant of Justin Morgan.
From The Killer by White, Stewart Edward
One after the other, like the antiphonies in the choral service, rises Fanny and the rose in June, then back again the rose in June and Fanny.
From Miscellaneous Essays by De Quincey, Thomas
The dialogue between the river and mountain spirits will perhaps remind them of the ghostly antiphonies which the "Mariner" hears in his trance.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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