Crossword clues for antiphony
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antiphony \An*tiph"o*ny\, n.; pl. Antiphonies. [See Antiphon.]
A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.
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An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively.
O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony.
--R. Browning. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Greek antiphonos (see antiphon) + -y (1).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner 2 alternate, or responsive ideas or opinions; juxtaposition
WordNet
n. alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts
a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response [syn: antiphon]
Usage examples of "antiphony".
It was an antiphony of responses, switching the students from one teaching image to the other, and from one timber of voice to another, that kept the students attention.
Vato and Blood were slouched in folding chairs when Takeshi and DL came in to open up shop, both humming back and forth in a strange free-form antiphony, sometimes falling silent, picking up the tune two and a half bars later exactly together, latently menacing, like a bee swarm.
In a subtle antiphony currents of sound were sweeping round and round the room.
Dipsas coughed as she chanted, but her cracked voice and the thunderous antiphony from below continued for so long as the sulphur burned.
The sound of prayer became an antiphony to the chanting and the sound of the bell.
It was hard to follow them very far: the surrounding night crowded in on his ears with its competing antiphony of innumerable frogs and insects and small beasts of unimaginable variety, a background orchestration that you could forget entirely until you wanted to listen for something else and then it seemed to swell up into deafening volume.
England the winter solstice came down with a bitter antiphony of snow and frost.
In a subtle antiphony currents of sound were sweeping round and round the room.
The instinctive act of humankind was to stand and listen, and learn how the trees on the right and the trees on the left wailed or chaunted to each other in the regular antiphonies of a cathedral choir.
From hot-air balloons above the square, orchestras of children blowing on giant seashells played enthusiastic, strident antiphonies.