antiphony
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Noun[edit]
antiphony (countable and uncountable, plural antiphonies)
- (music, singing) Alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner.
- Alternate, or responsive ideas or opinions; juxtaposition.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 76:
- "Besides that Cardan pleases himself with that Antiphonie in Nature, that as the Ostrich being a Bird, yet never shes in the Aire, so this Bird of Paradise should alwayes be in the Aire, and never rest upon the Earth."
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 76:
- (phonetics) Synonym of apophony (“contrastive vowel modification”).
- 1953, The French Review[1], volume 27, page 300:
- Still another phase of language which interests Professor Orr is that of vowel antiphony in the functional development of language; e.g. the “front-back” vowel sequence (tittle-tattle, et patati et patata, etc.).
- 2000, Edward Nye, Literary and Linguistic Theories in Eighteenth-Century France: From Nuances to Impertinence, →ISBN, page 175:
- Roman Jakobson gives evidence to show how language uses ‘antiphony’ or vowel opposition in pairs of words with opposite meanings: ‘gleam’ and ‘gloom’, ‘here’ and ‘there’, or in French ‘petit’ and ‘grand’.
Translations[edit]
singing by a choir split in two parts or a piece sung in this manner