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Definition of Anthems
1. anthem [v] - See also: anthem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthems
Literary usage of Anthems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1901)
"The funeral anthems, ' The Souls of the Righteous' and ' Blessed are the ...
Besides the anthems already mentioned, his chants, his ' Cantate Domino,' a ..."
2. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1878)
"stately yet moving psalms and anthems—some of them also composed to English ...
Handel's Chandos anthems were variously instrumented; amongst them, ..."
3. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1850)
"ON MODERN anthems. (A Paper read before the Ecclesiological late Cambridge ...
However, some people like nothing except anthems, and reject even Catholic ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"Full anthems with V. Nares. Blessed be the Lord God. Blake. 1 have set God.
Baildon. Behold, how good. Travers. Keep, we beseech Thee. Woud. ..."
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