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Most notably, Arian Christians attracted "many Orthodox converts by their impressive chanting of the psalms in antiphony with two choirs of singers" (Moran 101).
Hemingway's modern hymn: music and the church as background sources ... by Camastra, Nicole J. / The Hemingway Review
However, it is also within the reach of a competent parish choir and organist, while the full cathedral choir can make effective use of the score with harmony and antiphony.
Mass appeal! by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
She notes: If my work is faithfully to reflect the aesthetic tradition of Afro-American culture, it must make conscious use of the characteristics of its art forms and translate them into print: antiphony, the group nature of art, its functionality, its improvisational nature, its relationship to audience performance, the critical voice which upholds tradition and communal values and which also provides occasion for an individual to transcend and/or defy group restrictions.
A love supreme: jazzthetic strategies in Toni Morrison's Beloved by Eckstein, Lars / African American Review
 
 
 
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