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Definition of Church music
1. Noun. Genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies.
Specialized synonyms: Antiphon, Antiphony, Mass, Processional, Prosodion, Antiphonal, Antiphonary, Religious Song
Generic synonyms: Genre, Music Genre, Musical Genre, Musical Style
Lexicographical Neighbors of Church Music
Literary usage of Church music
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music in the History of the Western Church: With an Introduction on by Edward Dickinson (1902)
"... existed among us have simply been transferred from the older countries across
the sea. Every form of church music known in Europe flourishes in America, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Moreover church music must speak to the congregation; accordingly, ... church music
does not make its appeal to the professional musician or to the concert ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Musicians themselves have frequently failed to recognize clearly the difference
between concert and church music. Mozart used parts of his religious ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by Charles Newell Boyd, Waldo Selden Pratt (1920)
"1817) : Sacred Minstrel or American church music Book, New York, ... In 1855 he
published Our church music, a discussion for pastors and people. ..."
5. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"CHAPTER XVII ENGLISH MUSIC FROM THE TUDORS TO THE STUARTS Tudor Influence—Henry
VIII and Elizabeth—Early church music—Tallis and Byrd—Madrigals—Rise of ..."
6. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong, Roul Tunley (1883)
"About this time church music began to be cultivated more according to rule.
In addition to ! the 1'salter and canonical singers, Church choristers ! were ..."
7. Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 by George Smith, Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1897)
"He wrote some church music and glees, and edited Gibbons's first set of madrigals,
... Of his church music, a service in Fhas enjoyed a great vogue; ..."
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