church music

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Church music

Church music is music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn.

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Christian music

Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith. Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence, and lament, and its forms vary widely across the world.

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church music

Noun
1. genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies
(synonym) religious music
(hypernym) music genre, musical genre, genre, musical style
(hyponym) antiphon, antiphony

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church music

Synonyms and related words:
Negro spiritual, anthem, cantata, canticle, chorale, doxology, gospel, gospel music, hymn, hymn-tune, hymnody, hymnology, introit, mass, motet, offertory, offertory sentence, oratorio, paean, passion, prosodion, psalm, psalmody, recessional, requiem, requiem mass, sacred music, spiritual, white spiritual

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