Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or resembling an antiphon.
- adjective Answering responsively, as in antiphony.
- adjective Occurring or responding in turns; alternating.
- noun An antiphonary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or marked by antiphony or responsive singing; antiphonary.
- noun A book of antiphons or anthems; an antiphonary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A book of antiphons or anthems.
- adjective Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A book of
antiphons oranthems sung or chanted at aliturgy ; anantiphonary orantiphoner . - noun An
antiphon ; a piece sung or chanted in an antiphonal manner. - adjective music Characterized by
antiphones orantiphony ; incorporatingalternate , orresponsive singing by achoir split into two parts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bound collection of antiphons
- adjective containing or using responses; alternating
- adjective relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony
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Examples
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The church had two choir lofts, so Gabrieli and other composers often wrote music that would bounce from choir to the other (called antiphonal) and later wrote the same for "choirs" of brass players.
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A lyric may be a solo, or the matter may be arranged for 'antiphonal' performance between different performers, e.g. choruses of Men and of Women.
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886
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This is seen by the 'antiphonal' distribution of the matter, for example, between choruses of men and women, and by the recurrence of passages ( 'refrains').
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886
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"An ignorance shared by the child, who exhibits a distaste for an interview," interpolated Miss Prinkwell, in a kind of antiphonal response --
Trent's Trust, and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869
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Dame was the operation of the great organs, one in the choir gallery, the other in the chancel, in a kind of antiphonal music, somewhat monotonous though not without beauty.
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Female singers generally use the falsetto while male singers generally use natural voice to sing this kind of antiphonal song.
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Female singers generally use the falsetto while male singers generally use natural voice to sing this kind of antiphonal song.
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Female singers generally use the falsetto while male singers generally use natural voice to sing this kind of antiphonal song.
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Those in attendance will also enjoy some specific climactic instances such as antiphonal brass.
Times Leader News 2009
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We then proceeded to learn chant for the reformed Roman rite and in the evening, we gathered for first Vespers of the Baptism of the Lord, using the new antiphons from the Solesmes antiphonal and the responsory, 'Hodie in Iordane'.
knitandpurl commented on the word antiphonal
"From gates far apart the watchdogs, awakened by our steps in the silence, would set up an antiphonal barking such as I still hear at times of an evening, and among which the Boulevard de la Gare (when the public gardens of Combray were constructed on its site) must have taken refuge, for wherever I may be, as soon as they begin their alternate challenge and response, I can see it again with its lime-trees, and its pavement glistening beneath the moon."
-- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, p 124 of the Vintage International paperback edition
December 28, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word antiphonal
"A high-pitched wail broke from behind me, and I started back.... Phaedre had come through the gate, Gussie and another female slave behind her. She ran through the garden, screaming 'Mama!' as her white shift caught the light of hte flames that now burst through holes in the shed's roof, showering sparks....
I closed my eyes convulsively, trying not to hear Phaedre's frantic cries and the antiphonal babble of her comforters."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 756
January 26, 2010