NOUN
- a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response
- alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts
How To Use antiphony In A Sentence
- My one carp with the piece is that it relies a bit too heavily on antiphony, a natural device for two choirs.
- Harris's style is strong and assertive, imbued with an American melos of hymn tunes and folksongs, and using the orchestra to create powerful effects of block antiphony.
- The alleluias are strong and simple, with mainly two-part antiphony (back-and-forth) between the men and the women.
- Due to textual antiphony, the choice ultimately rests with the individual reader.
- Though here, too, there is the braggadocio of the blues persona, Cortez employs less antiphony in her own voice, using instead a softer, more sensual tone to simulate a jazz ballad.