# responsory

> category of Western chant serving at Matins and monastic Vespers as musical postludes to the reading of lessons, as the gradual and alleluia do at the Mass

**Wikidata**: [Q604748](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q604748)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsory)  
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## References

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