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Antiphonal music is that performed by two choirs in interaction, often singing alternate musical phrases. [1] Antiphonal psalmody is the singing or musical playing of psalms by alternating groups of performers. [2] The term "antiphony" can also refer to a choir-book containing antiphons.
Enslaved Africans brought call and response music with them to the colonized American continents and it has been transmitted over the centuries in various forms of cultural expression—in religious observance, public gatherings, sporting events, children's rhymes, and most notably, in African-American music in its myriad forms and descendants.
In Ecclesiis is one of Giovanni Gabrieli's most famous single works. An example of polychoral techniques, it also epitomizes Baroque and Renaissance styles, with its use of hexachord-based harmonies, chromatic mediants, movement by fifths, pedal points and extended plagal cadences.
In half-chanting (which is more true to antiphonal singing in the Gregorian style), decani sing the first two quarters of the chant, and cantoris the next two quarters (so that each half-choir sings a whole verse at a time). With antiphonal singing, the first two verses, the Gloria and perhaps the last two verses are often sung by the whole choir.
Printed antiphonary (ca. 1700) open to Vespers of Easter Sunday. (Musée de l'Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris)An antiphonary or antiphonal is one of the liturgical books intended for use in choro (i.e. in the liturgical choir), and originally characterized, as its name implies, by the assignment to it principally of the antiphons used in various parts of the Latin liturgical rites.
Ordinary chants, such as the Kyrie and Gloria, are not considered antiphonal chants, although they are often performed in antiphonal style. Responsorial chants such as the Gradual , Alleluia , Offertory , and the Office Responsories originally consisted of a refrain called a respond sung by a choir, alternating with psalm verses sung by a soloist.
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Paint texture on The Sower with Setting Sun by Vincent van Gogh. In the visual arts, texture refers to the perceived surface quality of a work of art.It is an element found in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional designs, and it is characterized by its visual and physical properties.