Usually means: Alternating, responsive singing by choirs.
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  1. antiphonies: Merriam-Webster
  2. antiphonies: Collins English Dictionary
  3. antiphonies: Vocabulary.com
  4. antiphonies: Wiktionary
  5. Antiphonies, antiphonies: Dictionary.com
  6. Antiphonies: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Antiphonies: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. antiphonies: FreeDictionary.org
  9. antiphonies: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (antiphony)

noun:  (music, singing) Alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner.
noun:  Alternate, or responsive ideas or opinions; juxtaposition.
noun:  (phonetics) Synonym of apophony (“contrastive vowel modification”).
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