antiphony

• TO make the piece more interesting introduce some antiphony (question and answer) passages between the instruments. —  Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
• Topic 4: Text, context and texture Students should investigate how different types of text are characteristic of different performance situations and how textures and styles of singing may be varied in vocal music (eg through antiphony or variations in the numbers of parts). —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• They are on old vellum, taken from an Italian antiphony of around 1400. —  The Art Newspaper - RSS
• As an example of the charm that lies in unostentatious antiphony, consider this passage from Ruskin:--"Originality in expression does not depend on invention of new words; nor originality in poetry on invention of new measures; nor in painting on invention of new colours or new modes of using them. —  The Principles of Success in Literature
• The two took up a kind of antiphony, one against the other, now rising in volume, now dying down to a low grumble, again suddenly bursting like an explosion The lions have found that rhino," remarked Kingozi indifferently For a moment or so they listened to the distant thunders I have not sufficiently thanked you even yet for this afternoon," she said. —  The Leopard Woman

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