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Antistrophe (, "a turning back") is the portion of an sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east in response to the , which was sung from east to west.


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Usage as a literary device
It has the nature of a reply and balances the effect of the . Thus, in 's ode called "The Progress of Poesy" (excerpt below), the strophe, which dwelt in triumphant accents on the beauty, power and ecstasy verse, is answered by the antistrophe, in a depressed and melancholy key:

When the sections of the chorus have ended their responses, they unite and close in the , thus exemplifying the triple form, in which the ancient sacred hymns of Greece were coined, from the days of onwards. As says: ", antistrophe and were a kind of framed for the music then used with the chorus that sang".


Other semantic usage
Antistrophe was also a kind of ancient , wherein dancers stepped sometimes to the right, and sometimes to the left, still doubling their turns or conversions. The motion toward the left, they called antistrophe, from ἀντί, "against", and στροφή, of στρέφω, "I turn".

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