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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1antiphon
2a series of methodical rules which secured correspondence between psalm and antiphon by dividing the antiphons according to key and subdividing these groups according to the beginning of the antiphons. The antiphons were used to a certain extent as independent compositions and in this way instead of in connection with the psalms they passed into the English prayer-book. As a general term the word antiphon is applied to the alternate chanting, singing or intoning by two choirs, as practised by the Greek, Roman, Anglican and Lutheran churches.
3antiphonaire (ăn-tē-fō-năr') Fr. n.
4Antiphonary; a book of antiphons and responses.
5antiphonal
6The book of antiphons, responses and other music used during the canonical hours in the Roman Catholic Church. Originally the name was also applied to the book containing the music of the mass, but ceased to be used in this connection when most of the antiphons were omitted from the mass, and Introit and Communion became the names of the two principal remaining antiphons, while the book of music for the mass was called Cantatorium and afterwards became known as the Gradual.
7antiphonarium (ăn-tīf-ō-nā'-rī-ūm) Lat. n.
8A book containing a compilation of responsive singing arrangements called antiphons; an antiphonary.
9antiphonary
101. n. A book of antiphons, or arrangements of responsive choir singing introducing and closing the psalms, and used in the divine offices and canonical hours of the Catholic service. This book originally contained all verses sung responsively but later the antiphons pertaining to the service of the mass were collected into one book called the Gradual. The responsories, or versicles, recited by the priest and answered by the choir, which formed a separate volume, are included in the present antiphonary.
112. adj. Related to responsive or alternate singing; antiphonal.
12antiphone (ăn-tīf'-ō-nā') Grk. n. pl.
13Antiphons; anthems.
14antiphony
15The alternate singing of two choirs or of a divided choir; the response of one choir to another.
16aphonus
17antispast (ăn'-tī-spāst) Grk. n.
18antispasto (ăn-tē-spās-tō) Spa. n.
19antispastus (ăn-tī-spās'-tūs) Lat. n.
20A metrical foot of four notes or syllables in which the first and last are short and the second and third long, ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘. It is the equivalent of an iambus, ˘ ˘, and a trochee, ˘ ˘.
21antistrophe (ăn-tīs'-trō-fē) Eng. n. from the Grk.
22A turning in the opposite direction. A term used for the movement from left to right in Greek dances, and also for the lines of the choral song sung during this movement. It stood in opposition to the strophe, which preceded it, and was a movement from right to left.
23antithesis (ăn-tīth'-ē-sīs) Eng. n. from Grk.
24Contrast: hence counter subject. Applied to the answer in a fugue.
25antönen (ăn'-tā-nēn) Ger. v.
26To begin to sound; to intone.
27antrommeln (ăn'-trōm-mēln) Ger. v.
28To begin to drum.
29antrompeten (ăn'-trōm-pā-tēn) Ger. v.
30To proclaim by blowing.
31Antwort (ăn'-vōrt) Ger. n.
32The answer; reply to the subject of a canon or fugue.
33anwachsend (ăn'-vākh-zēnt) Ger. pres. part.
34Growing, increasing in volume. Equivalent to crescendo (It.).
35Aelsharfe (ā-ōls-hār-fē) Ger. n.
36Æolian harp.
37Aolsklavier (ā'ōls-klā-fēr) Ger. n.
38The same as Aolsklavier.
39aperto (ā-pār'-tō) It. adj.
40Open or broad: in piano music this term directs that the pedal be used which raises the dampers and allows the strings now open or unstopped to vibrate freely.
41apertus (ā-pūr'-tūs) Lat. adj.
42Applied to organ pipes, those which are open at the top. In brass instruments those tones which are produced by the original tube without the use of the valves additionally.
43Apfelregal (āp'-fēl-rākh-āl) Ger. n.
44Literally, apple register: the name of an obsolete reed stop in the organ, the pipes of which were small with a hollow, apple-shaped knob on top, from which the stop received its name.
45aphonie (ā-fō-nē') Fr. n.
46Aphony; loss of sound or tone.
47aphonus
48Without sound or voice.
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