v
(transitive, poetic) To celebrate with anthems.
adj
(music) Suggestive of an anthem; rousing.
adv
(obsolete, music) Alternately.
n
A book of antiphons or anthems sung or chanted at a liturgy; an antiphonary or antiphoner.
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Alternative form of antiphonary [An antiphonal.]
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Pertaining to an antiphon or antiphony.
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(music, archaic) antiphon
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Having the presence of an antiphon between two choirs with a call and a response in song or in chant, usually in the form of a hymn or a psalm.
adj
Alternative form of antiphonic [Having the presence of an antiphon between two choirs with a call and a response in song or in chant, usually in the form of a hymn or a psalm.]
n
alternate, or responsive ideas or opinions; juxtaposition
n
In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.
adv
in the manner of a choir; antiphonally
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choral; relating to a choir
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(Christianity) The last of the canonical hours, sung just before retiring to bed.
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Alternative form of kontakion [(Eastern Orthodoxy) A form of hymn or poem recited as a dialogue between a chanter and the choir.]
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In medieval music, a mnemonic for the Latin words saeculōrum and āmēn (from “ […] in saecula saeculōrum. Āmēn.” from the Gloria Patri doxology), used in liturgical works to indicate how the words should be sung with various cadences.
adj
Of or pertaining to the mythological figure Euterpe, or to music.
n
An international movement of artists, poets, composers and designers of the 1960s and 1970s, noted for experimental syntheses of different media and disciplines.
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(Christianity) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
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An apotropaic symbol, in both Jewish and Islamic cultures, serving as a talisman against the "evil eye".
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A hymn, song or poem in honour of a wedding.
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A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
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Alternative form of hymnbook [(Britain) A book containing a collection of hymns.]
n
Alternative spelling of hymnbook [(Britain) A book containing a collection of hymns.]
adj
Of or pertaining to hymns.
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A signboard in a church indicating which hymns are to be sung.
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(Britain) A book containing a collection of hymns.
adj
Of or relating to hymns.
adv
In terms of, or by means of, a hymn.
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Of or pertaining to hymnody.
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A person who studies hymnody.
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(uncountable) The writing, composing, or singing of hymns or psalms.
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A writer whose subject is hymns.
adv
In terms of hymnography.
n
The art of composing hymns.
adj
Relating to hymnology.
adj
Relating to hymnology.
adv
In terms of hymnology.
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A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology.
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The study of hymns; hymnody.
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A sheet printed with the words of a hymn.
n
The composition of hymns.
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Alternative form of hypophrygian [(music) Of or relating to a musical mode or diatonic scale in medieval chant theory, the fourth mode of church music and the plagal counterpart of the authentic third mode, or Phrygian.]
n
(Roman Catholicism, music) A prayer, typically part of a psalm or other portion of the Bible, read or sung at the start of Mass while or immediately after the priest ascends to the altar.
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(music) A psalm sung, as an invitation to prayer, at the beginning of some services
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A troparion, or hymn, chanted at matins after each such division of the psalter.
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(Eastern Orthodoxy) A form of hymn or poem recited as a dialogue between a chanter and the choir.
adj
Of or relating to the lyre (or sometimes the harp)
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(poetry) A short poem, often pastoral, and suitable to be set to music.
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A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.
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Of or pertaining to the Muses, or to poetry.
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A short poem or song for children, mostly anonymous or handed down by folklore
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(Christianity) A hymn tune in long metre, mainly associated with the 100th psalm, "All People that on Earth do Dwell".
adj
Alternative form of operatic [Of, related to, or typical of opera.]
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(by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
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A lament or dirge, a popular literary form in the Middle Ages.
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(music) Featuring multiple choirs, or a choir that has been divided into different groups (so as to effect antiphonal exchange)
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(Greek mythology) The Muse of sacred music.
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Of or relating to Polyhymnia, the Ancient Greek Muse of sacred music.
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of or relating to polyphony
n
A hymn or other music used during a procession; prosodion.
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(Christianity) In the liturgical practice of the Orthodox Church and Byzantine Rite, a psalm or canticle refrain sung responsorially at certain points of the Divine Liturgy or the Divine Office, usually to introduce a scripture reading.
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Alternative form of prokeimenon [(Christianity) In the liturgical practice of the Orthodox Church and Byzantine Rite, a psalm or canticle refrain sung responsorially at certain points of the Divine Liturgy or the Divine Office, usually to introduce a scripture reading.]
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(religion, music) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
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(music, uncountable) The singing or the writing of psalms.
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Relating to a psalter; musical.
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using antiphons; antiphonal
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A chant or anthem recited after a reading in a church service
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A kind of Tuscan poem of two quatrains in iambic tetrameter.
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A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
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(Christianity) A worship service, or sometimes a part of a service or any other church activity, involving the singing of hymns.
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Of, resembling, pertaining to, or expressed in song; songful; musical
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(drama, Ancient Greek drama) A song of the chorus during a tragedy, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.
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A hymn, often written in cycles and sung in alternation with psalm verses, used in the Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite.
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(art) An artist working in the style of synthetism.
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In Byzantine music and in the religious music of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, a short hymn of one stanza, or organised in more complex forms as a series of stanzas.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a tune.
adj
Relating to zoomusicology.
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