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Antechoir
Antechoir An"te*choir`, n. (Arch.) (a) A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers. (b) Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary.
Echoing
Echo Ech"o, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Echoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Echoing. -- 3d pers. sing. pres. Echoes.] 1. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate. Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng. --Dryden. The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever. --Keble. 2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt. They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they ?nvied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them. --Macaulay.

Meaning of Echoi from wikipedia

- Echos (Gr****: ἦχος [ˈixos] "sound", pl. echoi ἦχοι [ˈiçi]; Old Church Slavonic: гласъ [glasŭ] "voice, sound") is the name in Byzantine music theory for...
- manual "Hagiopolites" of 16 church tones (echoi), the author of this treatise introduces a tonal system of 10 echoi. Nevertheless, both schools have in common...
- may be flattened to ta. The older Byzantine system still retains eight echoi (sing. ἦχος – echos), each consisting of a small family of closely related...
- Hagiopolites the eight echoi ("modes") were divided in four kyrioi (authentic) echoi and their four respective plagioi (enriched, developed) echoi, which were all...
- Arabic scales The Hungarian minor scale The Byzantine music scales (called echoi) The Persian scale Scales such as the pentatonic scale may be considered...
- modes. This book contains a cycle of eight w****s, one for each of the eight echoi (church modes of the Byzantine musical system of eight modes), providing...
- eight church modes, but its compilator also mentions the Gr**** (Byzantine) echoi translated by the Latin term sonus. Thus, the names of the modes became...
- containing a repertoire of hymns ordered in eight parts according to eight echoi (tones or modes). Originally created in the Monastery of Stoudios during...
- practice still used the four enechemata or intonation formulas of the four echoi given by the modal signatures, the authentic or kyrioi in ascending direction...
- their own mele and compositions like the other echoi, they were subordinated to the eight diatonic echoi according to the pitches or degrees of the mode...