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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In old church music, all that part of the service sung by the whole choir, as hymns, psalms, halleluiahs, etc., in contradistinction to accentus, the part sung or recited by the priest and his assistants at the altar.
  • noun Harmony; consonance in partmusic for different instruments.

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