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antiphony|ænˈtɪfənɪ|
[f. Gr. ἀντίϕων-ος (see antiphon) + -y, as if repr. a Gr. *ἀντιϕωνία, like συµϕωνία symphony.
The words antiphon and antiphony, are very indistinctly separated in use. It would be better to use antiphon of the actual responses, or alternately sung verses; and antiphony, in form an abstract n. like symphony, euphony, of antiphonal composition, arrangement, or effect, and concretely of an antiphonal composition or anthem.]
1. Opposition of sound; or harmony thereby produced.
1603Holland Plutarch 186 (R.) The harmony of music hath symphony by antiphony (that is to say) the accord ariseth from discord. a1789Burney Hist. Mus. I. 137 (Jod.) Antiphony is more agreeable than homophony. 1868Chambers Encycl. I. 297 Antiphony, a name given by the ancient Greeks to a species of musical accompaniment in the octave, by instruments or voices, in opposition to that executed in unison, which they called Homophony.
2. A musical response; a responsive musical utterance, the answer made by one voice or choir to another. = antiphon 1.
1592tr. Junius on Rev. xix. 3 The song of the Antiphonie or response. 1637Jackson Creed Wks. VI. 83 The antiphony unto it would have been ‘No evil can come upon us.’ 1751Chambers Cycl., Antiphony, the answer made by one choir to another, when the psalm or anthem is sung between two. 1849De Quincey Mail-coach in Misc. II. 311 One after another, like the antiphonies in the choral service.
3. Alternate singing or chanting by a choir divided into two parts; antiphonal singing. Also fig.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Antiphony differs from responsorium, in that in this latter the verse is only spoke by one person, whereas in the former the verses are sung by the two choirs alternately. 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. viii. 122 Singing by antiphony or anthem. 1847Mrs. Browning in Blackw. Mag. LXI. 555 Life answering life across the vast profound In full antiphony. 1883Athenæum 30 June 836/1 ‘Israel in Egypt’..depends so largely..upon the antiphony of double choruses.
4. concr. A composition in prose or verse, consisting of verses sung alternately by two choirs in worship; = antiphon 2.
1868Chambers Encycl. I. 297 The dividing of the antiphonies into verses, with rules regarding the same, is attributed to Pope Cœlestin in 432.
†5. = antiphon 3. Obs.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp.
6. transf. A response or echo.
1657Trapp Comm. Esth. viii. 15 The joyful Jews then by way of antiphony answer. 1714Shaftesbury Charac. III. 300 The eccho or antiphony, which these elegant exclaimers hope..to draw necessarily from their audience. 1841De Quincey Rhet. Wks. XI. 45 It is not..any such bravura, that will make a fit antiphony to this sublime rapture. |