responsorial singing

For example, a comparable distinction exists between antiphonal and responsorial singing.

In parishes without a choir, the cantor serves to lead the responsorial singing with the congregation.

Antiphony (also referred to as responsorial singing).

It employs responsorial singing, which the soloist alternates with the choir, and long melismas.

Around 410, St. Augustine described the responsorial singing of a Gradual psalm at Mass.

The music of punta involves responsorial singing accompanied by indigenous membranophones, idiophones, and aerophones.

In responsorial singing, the soloist (or choir) sings a series of verses, each one followed by a response from the choir (or congregation).

Jordania, Joseph (2005) Interrogo Ergo Cogito: Responsorial Singing and the Origins of Human Intelligence (proceedings of the International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, held in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2004).

Around 425, Pope Celestine I contributed to the development of the Roman Rite by introducing the responsorial singing of a Gradual, and Cassian, Bishop of Brescia, contributed to the development of the monastic Office by adapting Egyptian monastic psalmody to Western usage.

Even players of simple solo instruments (such as the musical bow or the flute) manage to manipulate the instrument in such a way to produce simultaneous sounds by playing overtones with the bow, by humming while bowing, and the like...Overlapping choral antiphony and responsorial singing are principal types of African polyphony.