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Antiphon vs Canticle - What's the difference?

antiphon | canticle |

As nouns the difference between antiphon and canticle

is that antiphon is a devotional piece of music sung responsively while canticle is a chant, hymn or song, especially a nonmetrical one, with words from a biblical text.

antiphon

English

(wikipedia antiphon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A devotional piece of music sung responsively.
  • A response or reply.
  • * 2007 , Barbara Everett, ‘Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances’, in the London Review of Books 29:6, page 20:
    • The Clown says: ‘And so we wept; and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed’; to which his father, the Shepherd, adds the comfortable antiphon , ‘We may live, son, to shed many more.’

    Derived terms

    * antiphonal * antiphonary * antiphone * antiphoner * antiphonic * antiphonical * antiphony

    canticle

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia canticle) (en noun)
  • a chant, hymn or song, especially a nonmetrical one, with words from a biblical text

    • Usage notes

    * The Psalms are not considered to be canticles