{"id":57,"date":"2021-01-19T16:12:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/?p=57"},"modified":"2021-01-19T16:12:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:12:21","slug":"antiphonals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/2021\/01\/antiphonals\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiphonals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An <em>antiphonal<\/em> is a collection of liturgical texts that were sung as part of daily devotion and worship in monasteries and convents. Most <em>antiphon<\/em>s were written in Latin, the official language of the Catholic Church from its beginnings until the mid-20th century. Today, songs for Mass are sung in the vernacular (everyday language), while some Catholic churches have returned to the Latin. The word <em>antiphon<\/em>, from the Latin <em>antiphona<\/em>, describes words sung as a response. As early as the 6th century, European church spaces accommodated separate choirs for responsive singing. <em>Antiphons<\/em> referenced biblical stories or themes surrounding various holidays and festivals according to the Catholic Church\u2019s liturgical calendar.<br><br>Early <em>antiphonal<\/em> music featured notations that are still incorporated today, such as staff lines, notes and clefs. These early notes were called <em>neumes<\/em> and indicated the inflection of the pitches as well as the order of notes in a universal language for musicians. The musical notation system made it easier to share chants among different sects of the Catholic Church.<br><br>To accommodate groups of four or more singers, an <em>antiphonal<\/em> was larger than a standard book so that the text could easily be read from a raised lectern. Some <em>antiphonals<\/em> were embellished with illuminations, such as initial letters introducing passages as well as fully developed images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>An antiphonal is a collection of liturgical texts that were sung as part of daily devotion and worship in monasteries and convents. Most antiphons were <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/2021\/01\/antiphonals\/\" title=\"Antiphonals\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3183,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sacredsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}