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Antiphonary

noun
1.
Bound collection of antiphons.  Synonym: antiphonal.





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... Business; the fifth, the Mirror of Heaven. [4] The Greeks also had a name for each note. The so-called Gregorian notes were not invented until six hundred years after Gregory's death. The Monastery of St. Gall possesses a copy of Gregory's Antiphonary, made about the year 780 by a chorister who was sent from Rome to Charlemagne to reform the Northern music, and in this the notes are indicated by "pneumss," from which our notes were gradually developed, and first ...
— The Pleasures of Life • Sir John Lubbock
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Words linked to "Antiphonary" :   church music, antiphon, religious music, antiphony


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