What is "antiphon"

Antiphon \An"ti*phon\, n. [LL. antiphona, fr. Gr. ?. See Anthem.]

1. A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

2. A verse said before and after the psalms.
   --Shipley.

c.1500, "a versicle sung responsively," from Middle French antiphone "hymn" or directly from Medieval Latin antiphona, from Greek antiphona, from anti- "over against" (see anti-) + phone "voice" (see fame (n.)). A re-adoption of the word which had become anthem in English and lost its original meaning.

n. 1 A devotional piece of music sung responsively. 2 A response or reply.

n. a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response [syn: antiphony]

An antiphon ( Greek ἀντίφωνον, ἀντί "opposite" and φωνή "voice") in Christian music and ritual is a responsory by a choir or congregation, usually in the form of a Gregorian chant, to a psalm or other text in a religious service or musical work.

Antiphony is now generally used for any call and response style of singing, such as the kirtan and the sea shanty. Antiphonal music is music that is performed by two semi-independent choirs in interaction, often singing alternate musical phrases. Antiphonal psalmody is the singing or musical playing of psalms by alternating groups of performers. An antiphony is also a choir-book containing antiphons.

Antiphon the Sophist (; ) lived in Athens probably in the last two decades of the 5th century BC. There is an ongoing controversy over whether he is one and the same with Antiphon of the Athenian deme Rhamnus in Attica (480–411 BC), the earliest of the ten Attic orators. For the purposes of this article, they will be treated as distinct persons.

Scholars noted that Iamblichus used many citations from an important early author on education and political philosophy, originally identified in 1889 as Antiphon, but officially referred to as Anonymous Iamblichi.

Antiphon is the fourth studio album by American folk rock band Midlake, released on November 5, 2013, on Bella Union Records, in Europe, and ATO Records in North America. Recorded following the departure of vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter Tim Smith, Antiphon is the first album to feature guitarist Eric Pulido on lead vocals, alongside new members Jesse Chandler (keyboards, flute) and Joey McClellan (guitar).

Released to critical acclaim, the album reached number 39 on the UK Albums Chart.

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Antiphon can refer to a number of things:

• Antiphon, a musical term to describe a responsory by a choir or congregation in Christian music.
• Antiphon (orator), one of the ten Attic orators
• Antiphon (album), a 2013 album by Midlake
• Antiphon (tragic poet), a tragic poet
• Antiphon (epic poet), sophist and epic poet
• Antiphon brother of Plato
• Antiphon (4th century BC), a contemporary of Demosthenes
• Antiphon (sophist)
• Antiphon (writer)
• Antiphon, a writer on agriculture, mentioned by Athenaeus

Antiphon was in ancient Greece a tragic poet whom Plutarch, Philostratus, and others, confused with the Attic orator Antiphon, who was put to death at Athens in 411 BCE. Antiphon the tragic poet lived at Syracuse, at the court of Dionysius I of Syracuse, who did not assume the tyranny till the year 406 BCE, that is, five years after the death of the Attic orator Antiphon.

The poet Antiphon is said to have written dramas in conjunction with the tyrant, who is not known to have shown interest in writing poetry until the latter period of his life. These circumstances alone, if there were not many others, would show that the orator and the poet were two different persons, and that the latter must have survived the former by many years.

The poet was put to death by Dionysius, according to some accounts, for having used a sarcastic expression in regard to tyranny, or, according to others, for having imprudently censured the tyrant's compositions. We still know the titles of five of Antiphon's tragedies: Andromache, Jason, Medeia, Meleager, and Philoctetes.

Antiphon of Athens was a sophist and an epic poet. His entry in the Suda says that he was surnamed logomageiros , and others state that he wrote on the interpretation of signs. Not a line of his poems is extant.

Antiphon of Athens was contemporary of the orator Demosthenes. For some offense his name was removed from the list of Athenian citizens, whereupon he went to Philip of Macedonia. He pledged himself to the king, that he would destroy by fire the Athenian arsenal in Peiraeeus; but when he arrived there with this intention, he was arrested by Demosthenes and accused of treachery. He was found guilty, and put to death in 342 BCE.

Antiphon was sophist of ancient Greece, who lived before the time of Aristotle, and whose opinions respecting the quadrature of the circle, and the genesis of things, are mentioned by this philosopher.

Antiphon was an author of ancient Greece who wrote an account of men distinguished for virtue , one of whom was Pythagoras.