Psalm vs Antiphon - What's the difference?
psalm | antiphon |
(music) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
Especially, one of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.
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:
As nouns the difference between psalm and antiphon
is that psalm is a sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God while antiphon is a devotional piece of music sung responsively.As a verb psalm
is to extol in psalms; to make music; to sing; as, psalming his praises.psalm
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(en noun)Derived terms
* psalmist * psalmodic * psalmody * Psalms (name of the book of the Bible in which the psalms are collected)Anagrams
* * * ----antiphon
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(wikipedia antiphon)Noun
(en noun)- 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.’