antiphones

For my part, I set the highest value on these choral odes, these mournful antiphones, in which the poet definitely triumphs over the mere playwright.

John Gabriel Borkman 2008

For my part, I set the highest value on these choral odes, these mournful antiphones, in which the poet definitely triumphs over the mere playwright.

John Gabriel Borkman 2008

After dinner we went to vespers, and between the psalms executed antiphones I prepared for the purpose.

The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004

During the processions they trilled and quavered most melodiously betwixt their teeth I do not know what antiphones, or chantings, by turns.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

All this was done with proper antiphones, still sung and chanted by ear, as we have already observed.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

All this was done with proper antiphones, still sung and chanted by ear, as we have already observed.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

During the processions they trilled and quavered most melodiously betwixt their teeth I do not know what antiphones, or chantings, by turns.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

I cannot say how long the great harmony lasted, for we listened spellbound, unheeding the passage of time, while the cedars trembled about us as the tremendous diapason leaped from peak to peak and the valleys flung back the echoes in majestic antiphones.

Lorimer of the Northwest Harold Bindloss 1905

After the antiphones the collects shall be said in order by the bishops and presbyters, and the hymns of Matins and Vespers be sung daily; and at the conclusion of the mass of Matins and Vespers, (266) after the hymns a chapter of the Psalms shall be read, and the people who are gathered shall, after the prayer, be dismissed with a benediction of the bishop until Vespers.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

She's got a face that'd make ye want to lift the chorals an 'the antiphones to her every marnin'.

Wild Youth, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897