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church music

NOUN
  1. genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies

How To Use church music In A Sentence

  • Only a few of the twenty-one canticles have been found to be useful by pastors and church musicians.
  • The tradition of church music was confused by the peculiar nature of Henry VIII's semi-Reformation.
  • In the ancient Church music all that portion of the liturgical song which was performed by the entire choir, or by sections of it, say two or three singers, was called concentus. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • In a more vigorous vein he wrote some church music, including a Mass in the old style and the famous music for Vespers on feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  • From then on, spectacular church music was reserved for special occasions.
  • DMus: In recognition of his significant contribution to church music, particularly as a composer and as Organist and Informator Choristarum at Magdalen College, Oxford. Archbishop of Canterbury awards Lambeth Degrees
  • While much of his later life was occupied by scholarly questions of the Bible and homosexuality, he came to abhor the label "gay minister," and pursued a much wider range of studies, on early American religions, Elizabethan Puritanism, church music and the African-American experience. NYT > Home Page
  • Barbara had not only received this guest alone, but she had kept him more than an hour, and the servant could swear that the young man to whom she sang long songs -- which, it is true, sounded like church music -- to the lute and also to the harp, was Erasmus Eckhart, the adopted son of the archtraitor, Dr. Hiltner, who had just obtained the degree of Master of Arts in Wittenberg. Barbara Blomberg — Complete
  • All of them continue to enhance the role of the church musician by their devotion and perseverance.
  • If the divertissement and the etiquette were excellent derivatives, Church music had also its role to maintain.
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