Cantillation: alternatives and connections

A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.

A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic po…

A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.

An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.

To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.

To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.

The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches…

Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they pr…

A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a…

a total failure in a recitation.

To give audience or attention to; to listen to; to heed; to accept the doctrines or advice of; to obey; to examine; to try in a judici…

A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting.

A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument.

To modulate the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy; to intone.

The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote.

The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modul…