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Definition of Religious 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 Religious Music
Literary usage of Religious music
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"After his return in 1875, he devoted himself more and more to religious music.
In 1882 he brought out his oratorio The Redemption", for which he himself ..."
2. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1905)
"CHAPTER IX religious music THE Romantic movement in France was a revolution which
invaded not only the theatre and the concert-room but the Church also. ..."
3. The World's Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the by John Henry Barrows (1893)
"religious music is a language, not a mere festal robe, not a spectacular display,
not a lifeless apparition, but a language expressive of one personality ..."
4. A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics by Shailer Mathews, Gerald Birney Smith (1921)
"Throughout the There are three phases in the history of religious music. ...
Church music is a department of religious music, but the two are not equivalent ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"religious music From 'Work and Play' As WE are wont to argue the invisible things
of God, ... religious music ..."
6. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser (1891)
"What is religious music ? To the Aztec, who in religious sacrifice cut out the
victim's heart, the beating of the serpent-skin drum was religious music ..."
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