Examples of antiphonal in a Sentence
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Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2023
More complicated are choral passages, especially antiphonal ones, a challenge for untrained performers but a compelling study in building harmony.
—New York Times, 1 July 2022
Extra musicians in the boxes next to the stage create antiphonal effects around the audience; electronics provide creepiness for the ghost scenes and others, while a chorus of eight singers in the pit adds an additional stratum of sound.
—Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 18 May 2022
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s string sound, with antiphonal violins and cellos seated near the very center of the stage, was richly integrated and balanced.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
Hence, intimacy was the order of the evening, beginning with music director Osmo Vänskä conducting three antiphonal Renaissance brass works by Giovanni Gabrieli.
—Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 18 Jan. 2021
That said, the concert actually started with something very old: an antiphonal Renaissance-era work by Hans Leo Hassler that the 26-member chamber choir sang while surrounding the audience on three sides.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 21 July 2019
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This time, in music clearly intended for antiphonal effects between first and second violins on opposite sides of the stage, all the violins were back on the left.
—Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2023
More complicated are choral passages, especially antiphonal ones, a challenge for untrained performers but a compelling study in building harmony.
—New York Times, 1 July 2022
Extra musicians in the boxes next to the stage create antiphonal effects around the audience; electronics provide creepiness for the ghost scenes and others, while a chorus of eight singers in the pit adds an additional stratum of sound.
—Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 18 May 2022
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s string sound, with antiphonal violins and cellos seated near the very center of the stage, was richly integrated and balanced.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
Hence, intimacy was the order of the evening, beginning with music director Osmo Vänskä conducting three antiphonal Renaissance brass works by Giovanni Gabrieli.
—Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 18 Jan. 2021
That said, the concert actually started with something very old: an antiphonal Renaissance-era work by Hans Leo Hassler that the 26-member chamber choir sang while surrounding the audience on three sides.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 21 July 2019
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“Antiphonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antiphonal. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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