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• Psalms were sung antiphonally, that is, first one side would sing and the other side would answer. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
• The composer adapts the antiphonal structure by alternating sections of linear two-voice writing with those of chordal textures, the latter serving as multiple refrains.
• For one thing, he likes to set up these pieces antiphonally. Sacred Songs And DJs: New Classical CDs
• Additional material found in certain psalters includes refrains used for antiphonal psalmody and appendices containing canticles or other sacred writings.
• It was the manner of singing psalms antiphonally, that is alternately by two choirs, to which we are accustomed, that had already been introduced at Antioch in the time of the Patriarch The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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• The Istanbul Antiphonal is a large, secular Hungarian antiphonary of 303 folios in choirbook format, written in the diocese of Esztergom around 1360.
• Then we begin stripping the altar and the entire chancel while the choir and the congregation chant Psalm 22 antiphonally.
• There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings. The Memory Palace
• Viewed structurally, the book contains distinct voices and voice-realms, but places them in antiphonal relations that suggest community.