antiphonyn.
1. Opposition of sound; or harmony thereby produced.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > other kinds of harmony
antiphony1603
paraphonia?1775
close harmony1876
homophony1879
paraphony1919
heterophony1945
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 186 (R.) The harmony of music hath symphony by antiphony (that is to say) the accord ariseth from discord.
1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 137 Antiphony is more agreeable than Homophony.
1868 Chambers's 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 n. 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > antiphon > choral response
antiphony1592
antiphona1652
1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xix. 3 The song of the Antiphonie or response.
1637 T. Jackson Comm. Apostles Creed in Wks. VI. 83 The antiphony unto it would have been ‘No evil can come upon us.’
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word), Antiphony, the answer made by one choir to another, when the psalm or anthem is sung between two.
1849 T. De Quincey Eng. Mail Coach in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 494/2 One after the other, like the antiphonies in a choral service.
3. Alternate singing or chanting by a choir divided into two parts; antiphonal singing. Also fig.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > alternate singing or chanting
to sing side for sidea1425
to sing (something) on sides1563
reciprocation1641
alternation1642
antiphony1753
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. 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.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corrupt. Christianity II. viii. 122 Singing by antiphony or anthem.
1847 E. B. Browning in Blackwood's Mag. 61 555 Life answering life across the vast profound In full antiphony.
1883 Athenæum 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 n. 2.
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society > faith > worship > church music > hymn > kinds of hymn > antiphonal > [noun]
antiphonc1500
antiphony1868
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > antiphon
anthemOE
anteync1300
antiphonc1500
antiphony1868
1868 Chambers's Encycl. I. 297 The dividing of the antiphonies into verses, with rules regarding the same, is attributed to Pope Cœlestin in 432.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > chanted > plainchant > part of plainchant
pneumaa1398
neume1440
intonation1620
antiphony1753
mediation1776
neuma1776
antiphon1778
recitation note1844
initial1880
punctum1882
mediant1930
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl.
6. transf. A response or echo.
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > an answer, response > predictable
echo1641
antiphon1651
antiphony1657
1657 J. Trapp Comm. Esther viii. 15 The joyful Jews then by way of antiphony answer.
1714 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. 300 The eccho or antiphony, which these elegant exclaimers hope..to draw necessarily from their audience.
1828 T. De Quincey Elem. Rhetoric in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 895/1 It is not..any such bravura, that will make a fit antiphony to this sublime rapture.
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