Antiphone

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An´ti`phone

(Mus.) The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Laetere Sunday

References in periodicals archive

Vnde dicuntur antiphone in respectu ad psalmodiam, sicut responsoria ad hystoriam.

Liturgists and dance in the twelfth century: the witness of John Beleth and Sicard of Cremona

(28.) "Subscripte antiphone dicuntur per totum annum temporibus suis in commemoria de sancta maria post completorium" (Cranston 2322, fol.

Clares in procession: the processional and hours of the Franciscan minoresses at Aldgate

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