The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19939 Message #206493
Posted By: Hollowfox
04-Apr-00 - 10:07 AM
Thread Name: Help: Folksong jargon
Subject: RE: Help: Folksong jargon
The "formal" term I've heard for call-and-response songs is "antiphonal" music, although the dictionaries I checked say that this refers to call-and-response type music in Christian worship (that's not quite how they phrased it). I saw the term used in a chapter on The Hunting of the Wren songs in R.J. Stewart's book Where is Saint George?, and until now, I thought it was for all songs of this sort; maybe it should be.