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Antiphonal   Listen
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Antiphonal  adj.  Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Antiphonal" Quotes from Famous Books



... modern ceremonial, must have been the spectacle of the well-ordered procession, advancing through those giant colonnades to the sound of flutes and solemn chants—the shrill clear voices of boys in antiphonal chorus rising above the confused murmurs of such a crowd, the chafing of horses' hoofs upon the stone, and the lowing of ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

... with religious feeling or decorative requirement. The objection to this plan of balance is that it divides the picture into equal parts, neither one having precedence, and the subdivisions may be continued indefinitely. For this reason it has no place in genre art. Its antiphonal responses belong to the temple. A more objectionable form of balance on the centre is that in which the centre is of small importance. This cuts the picture into halves without reason. The "Dutch Peasants on the Shore," "Low Tide," and "The Poulterers," and David's ...
— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore



Words linked to "Antiphonal" :   religious music, antiphony, church music



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