2009
will add many new pages to this collection of music creation elements and
ideas. Each page explores ways to convert an idea into music.
Over time , this will become a music tools archive.
"An
antiphon is the response sung after a psalm or other reading/chant in the
service, and the idea of call-and-response carries over into antiphonal
music."
by
Charles George Herbermann | "By plain chant we understand the
church music of the early Middle Ages, before the advent of ... The antiphonal
consisted in the alternation of two choirs." |
"This
work used an entirely different system of composition and notation. ...
lines of music in antiphonal style: a solo statement with a choral response"
"Black
music has been largely influenced by two durable styles that possess tested
communicative powers. One is the antiphonal (call and response) song"
"Without
strong features, the music of the culture would disintegrate; the strong
features [of African music] are antiphonal and responsorial technique"
"This
antiphonal structure not only preserves the integrity of its Chinese ...
scope of his instrument, presumably in response to the music on the screen."
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