"Introibo ad altare dei"... I go to the altar of God. This is the beginning of the Roman Catholic Mass, in the Latin of the Tridentine formula. Introit is the beginning of something. Its opposite would be something like "Ite missa est. Associated music might be a postlude, or recessional.
The opposite of introit is exit, as introit refers to the beginning or entrance of a religious service, while exit signifies the ending or departure.
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Mass usually begins with an opening hymn, or "processional hymn", but this is not part of the mass itself. The first piece of music proper to the mass itself is called the "Introit".introit
Roman Catholic AnswerThe Introit, it's in the Graduale.
Quasi modo comes from the Latin introit to the mass on Low Sunday. It could be translated 'as if'. St Pater wries 'as newborn babies' Fr Nicholas Wheeler
Introit, Collects, Gloria, Epistle, Sequence, Tract, Gradual, Gospel, Creed, offertory, preface, sanctus, pater noster, post communion blessing.
The opposite (antonym) of opposite is same.
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Catholic AnswerThe Introductory Rite consists of the 1) Introit, 2) the "In the name of the Father...", 3) the greeting by the priest, 4) the confession, 5) Gloria, and 6) Opening Prayer.
In opera it would be called an overture. Overtures are routinely made up of a selection of the music that makes up the opera. In other pieces of music it might simply be called an introduction.