Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to or resembling an antiphon.
- adj. Answering responsively, as in antiphony.
- adj. Occurring or responding in turns; alternating: "this curious antiphonal relationship between the two men” ( Henry A. Kissinger).
- n. An antiphonary.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or marked by antiphony or responsive singing; antiphonary.
- n. A book of antiphons or anthems; an antiphonary.
Wiktionary
- n. A book of antiphons or anthems sung or chanted at a liturgy; an antiphonary or antiphoner.
- n. An antiphon; a piece sung or chanted in an antiphonal manner.
- adj. music Characterized by antiphones or antiphony; incorporating alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs.
- n. A book of antiphons or anthems.
WordNet 3.0
- n. bound collection of antiphons
- adj. containing or using responses; alternating.
- adj. relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony
Examples
“The church had two choir lofts, so Gabrieli and other composers often wrote music that would bounce from choir to the other (called antiphonal) and later wrote the same for "choirs" of brass players.”
“A lyric may be a solo, or the matter may be arranged for 'antiphonal' performance between different performers, e.g. choruses of Men and of Women.”
“This is seen by the 'antiphonal' distribution of the matter, for example, between choruses of men and women, and by the recurrence of passages ( 'refrains').”
“An ignorance shared by the child, who exhibits a distaste for an interview," interpolated Miss Prinkwell, in a kind of antiphonal response --”
“Dame was the operation of the great organs, one in the choir gallery, the other in the chancel, in a kind of antiphonal music, somewhat monotonous though not without beauty.”
“Female singers generally use the falsetto while male singers generally use natural voice to sing this kind of antiphonal song.”
“Those in attendance will also enjoy some specific climactic instances such as antiphonal brass.”
“We then proceeded to learn chant for the reformed Roman rite and in the evening, we gathered for first Vespers of the Baptism of the Lord, using the new antiphons from the Solesmes antiphonal and the responsory, 'Hodie in Iordane'.”
“The liturgical chant of our Catholic tradition, on the other hand, privileges the responsorial, dialogical, antiphonal and acclamatory modes of performance.”
“There was a little word-play (Tweedledum and Tweedledee's antiphonal speech was very well-rendered), but not remarkably, this movie is more about visual fireworks than verbal ones.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘antiphonal’.
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Just 'cause I like 'em, A
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
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A Mini-Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words
This mini-dictionary was inspired by the novel and imaginative use of language in the following publications:
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stpeter's Words
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Pale Fire
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Beautiful Music
a cappella, accelerando, accompagnato, adagio, ad libitum, agitato, aleatory, alla breve, allegro, allemande, alto, andante and 548 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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Definitions
Esoteric words for me
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Proustian
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Construction
Words around the construction of words
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for antiphonal.
chained_bear "A high-pitched wail broke from behind me, and I started back.... Phaedre had come through the gate, Gussie and another female slave behind her. She ran through the garden, screaming 'Mama!' as her white shift caught the light of hte flames that now burst through holes in the shed's roof, showering sparks....
I closed my eyes convulsively, trying not to hear Phaedre's frantic cries and the antiphonal babble of her comforters."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 756 Jan 26, 2010
knitandpurl "From gates far apart the watchdogs, awakened by our steps in the silence, would set up an antiphonal barking such as I still hear at times of an evening, and among which the Boulevard de la Gare (when the public gardens of Combray were constructed on its site) must have taken refuge, for wherever I may be, as soon as they begin their alternate challenge and response, I can see it again with its lime-trees, and its pavement glistening beneath the moon."
-- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, p 124 of the Vintage International paperback edition Dec 28, 2007