verse anthem

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• Verse anthem — The verse anthem is a species of religious choral music distinct from the motet or full anthem (i.e. for full choir).In the verse anthem the music alternates between sections for a solo voice or voices (called the verse ) and the full choir.… …   Wikipedia

• Verse Anthem —    An anthem featuring vocal solos, usually in some pattern of alternation with the full choir. The concept coincides with the first major collections of English anthems. The first verse of the anonymous Now Let the Congregation in the Wanley… …   Historical dictionary of sacred music

• verse anthem — noun Etymology: verse (I) : an anthem in use in the English Church for solo voices or having a passage for solo voices compare full anthem …   Useful english dictionary

• ANTHEM (musique) — ANTHEM, musique Du vieil anglais anteifn , du grec et du latin antifona , de l’espagnol et de l’italien antifona , l’anthem, forme de musique religieuse anglicane, est une paraphrase libre (et non une traduction littérale anglaise) de textes… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• anthem — /an theuhm/, n. 1. a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism: the national anthem of Spain; our college anthem. 2. a piece of sacred vocal music, usually with words taken from the Scriptures. 3. a hymn sung alternately by different sections… …   Universalium

• Anthem — Ein Anthem ist eine englische Chorkomposition mit geistlichem Text, die in Gottesdiensten der Anglikanischen Liturgie verwendet wird. Im englischen Sprachgebrauch wird der Begriff auch allgemein für einen festlichen Gesang verwendet (vgl.… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Anthem — The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music (in music theory and religious contexts), or more generally, a song (or composition) of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a distinct group of people, as in the term… …   Wikipedia

• anthem — Composición coral con textos en inglés que se usa en los servicios religiosos. Se desarrolló a mediados del s. XVI como la versión anglicana del motete católico en latín. El full anthem es para coro sin acompañamiento, mientras que el verse… …   Enciclopedia Universal

• Verse Service —    An Anglican service composed with alternation between solo singers and the full choir, after the manner of the verse anthem. The earliest examples date from the late 16th century.    See also Full Service; Great Service …   Historical dictionary of sacred music

• Verse — Verse, n. [OE. vers, AS. fers, L. versus a line in writing, and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere, versum, to turn, to turn round; akin to E. worth to become: cf. F. vers. See {Worth} to become, and cf. {Advertise}, {Averse}, {Controversy},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• verse — 1 Verse, stanza both mean a unit of metrical writing. Verse is both wider and more varied in its popular usage since it can denote a single line of such writing, such writing as a class, or, along with stanza, a group of lines forming a division… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms