Meaning & use
Responsorial
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Involving alternating responses between a leader and a group, especially in liturgical singing or chant.
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The choir sang a responsorial psalm, with the cantor's verses answered by the congregation.
Call-and-response work songs share a responsorial structure with church chant.
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The term is most familiar from the "responsorial psalm" sung between Scripture readings in Catholic Mass.
Words with a similar meaning
antiphonal
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