Call-and-response Definition

Of or relating to a style of singing in which the melody sung by one singer is responded to or echoed by another or others.

A kind of preaching or declaiming that elicits recurring cries of affirmation from the congregation or audience.

A pattern of alternating parts, either vocal or instrumental, with the second responding to or repeating the first, such as occurs in gospel music sung by a lead singer and an antiphonal choir.