Antiphone


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An´ti`phone


n.1.(Mus.) The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.
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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
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
Caught in the discrepancy between second person interrogative (fugis) and the imperative (fugi), Ovid cannot allow her to be, even Echo, so that Narcissus, flying from her, could have made of the ethical structure of response a fulfilled antiphone.
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