responsorial

Examples

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• When students perform responsorial singing, they learn to pay attention to both parts. "The members of the first group, even without realizing it, sing to themselves the line of Group II, and, of course, vice versa." (n5)

  Academic text (1997)

• In nonliturgical music, responsorial singing is synonymous with call and response, which alternates between two groups of performers or a soloist and group.

  Academic text (1997)

• And from us, the responsorial chant,

  Fiction book (2000)

• These include using drones, echo songs, responsorial and dialogue songs, and melody with ostinato.

  Academic text (1997)

• Responsorial singing is another type of singing suitable as preparation for part-singing in harmony.

  Academic text (1997)

• So after the choir finishes the Angelus, I'll perform the supplications and the responsorial psalm, and then you come up...

  The Unholy (2021)

• Why had the Penitential Rite, the Intercessory Prayers, the Responsorial Psalm—the Psalms!—been excised?

  Blog text (4)

• Their success with drones, responsorial singing, and ostinatos in the primary grades can lead naturally to the singing of polyphony and homophony in the upper elementary grades if teachers use appropriate materials, teach sequentially, and evaluate each instructional step.

  Academic text (1997)

• The choir performed a responsorial chant, where the leader sang a phrase and the congregation responded.

• In the service, the responsorial psalm was beautifully sung, with the congregation echoing the cantor's lines.

Synonyms

A

antiphonal

vsresponsorial

• Specialized

1 9.9

Singing with voices from opposite sides taking turns and answering each other

focuses on a leader calling and a group answering rather than two equal groups

R

responsory

vsresponsorial

• Specialized

9.9

Giving a short response in a religious service

refers to the style of leader call and group answer, not the single response

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology