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- noun Plural form of
responsory .
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Examples
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The archdeacon received the customary eighteen denarii, out of which, however, he had to pay the soloists who sang the responsories; each of the other singers received a coin of the value of four denarii pro beneficio solemnitatis.
27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm. John 2009
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The Hour of Matins is divided into three nocturns, as on the greater feasts, each of which consists of three psalms with their antiphons, a versicle, and three readings with their responsories.
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These lessons and the responsories have also been set in polyphony by innumerable musicians and composers; Palestrina, Victoria, and Charpentier are only three among the more outstanding composers who have written for this service.
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The archdeacon received the customary eighteen denarii, out of which, however, he had to pay the soloists who sang the responsories; each of the other singers received a coin of the value of four denarii pro beneficio solemnitatis.
The Station at St Paul John 2009
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I need to complete the revision of the antiphons and responsories to include alleluias.
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It should also be noted that in the western monastic rite, the entire Office of the Triduum is sung in exactly the same way as in the Roman Breviary, even though the number of psalms, readings and responsories at the various Hours is not in conformity with the regular order of the monastic Breviary.
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All of the antiphonaries of the Roman Rite, beginning with the oldest (the antiphonary of Compiègne, written about 870 A.D., and the Codex Hartker, written about the year 1000) attest with almost complete uniformity to the same repertoire of antiphons and responsories which are found in the Breviary of St. Pius V.
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Below is a video from Tenebrae of Good Friday, showing two of the Matins responsories, and the Benedictus with its antiphon in English.
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The theme of the workshop will be study of Gregorian chant neums and stylistic performance technique as applied to the repertoire of the monastic office (psalmody, antiphons, responsories, etc.).
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It contained the responsories and versicles for the hours, the different tones of singing the psalms, and their "various 'mediations' and terminations,"
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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