antiphony
/anˈtɪf(ə)ni
/noun [mass noun]
Antiphonal singing, playing, or chanting.My one carp with the piece is that it relies a bit too heavily on antiphony, a natural device for two choirs....
- The alleluias are strong and simple, with mainly two-part antiphony (back-and-forth) between the men and the women.
- 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.
Rhymes
- hand letter
- hand-lettered
- hand lettering
- Handley Page, Frederick
- hand-line
- handline
- hand-liner
- handling charge
- rough-textured
- rough timber
- rough tongue
- rough-tongued
- rough tonguing
- rough-towel
- rough trade
- rough-tree
- rough-tree rail
- rough trot
- rough-up
- rough waller
- rough-wing
- rough-winged swallow
- roughwood
- rough work
- rough-wrought