antiphonal's Usage Examples:

The two friends assembled their adherents outside the city walls for the observance of the exercises of religion; and, according to Theodoret, it was in these meetings that the practice of antiphonal singing was first introduced in the services of the church.

antiphonal works ever published, and probably the earliest ever written.

antiphonal groups, each of 4 or 5 instruments.

antiphonal effects came off and intonation was never so bad as to be disturbing.

graduale or gradale) is used of a service book or antiphonal of the Roman Catholic Church containing certain antiphons, called "graduals," sung at the service of the Mass after the reading or singing of the Epistle.

antiphonal northern voices of James Simmons and Seamus Deane.

by the subdeacon; then the Gradual, reciting antiphonally the conspiracy of the chief priests and Pharisees, and concluding with Christ's prayer on Mt Olivet; then the Gospel, sung by the deacon in the ordinary way, followed by a "continuation of the Holy Gospel" (Matt.

And after this a pervigilium, celebrated with antiphonal and joint singing on the part of men and women and with choral dancing in imitation of Moses and Miriam at the Red Sea.

In antiphonal music, or music modeled on the antiphonal situation of solo and chorus, tonality shifts regularly between solo and chorus sections.

Synonyms:

church music, antiphonary, religious music,

Antonyms:

unresponsive, insensitive,