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church music

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

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  • As reported at ThinkProgress, Joe the Deacon, had this to say about replacing baby Jesus with a lump of Christmas coal in Silent Night: "I'll put my years as a Sunday school teacher, church deacon and church musician up against just about anybody else when it comes to understanding hymnology and respect for religious traditions. Justin Callaway: Joe the Deacon and the Church of Clean Coal Carolers: How to Faith-wash Green-washing
  • Vecchi composed some excellent church music, but his fame rests on his light madrigals and canzonettas, written in an eminently singable and attractive style.
  • Like his father, Alfonso the younger was well known as a composer of church music, writing English anthems for the Anglican Church as well as motets to Latin words.
  • He possessed a fine tenor voice and had an abiding love of church music. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other influences on popular music include church music, gospel, Zairean rhumba, and South African mbaqanga and mbube.
  • There's a feeling of Renaissance modality to it - church music, if you will, without the official prayer.
  • Together with the evident popularity of cathedral music, these are a cause of encouragement for church music in this country.
  • In spite of renewed interest generated by the tercentenary celebrations of 1995, and increasing availability of recorded performances, only a fraction of his music remains widely known, and there are many riches to be found among the little-performed songs, odes, and church music. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Singing Catholic church music in a post-Reformation church that fire-breathing John Knox may once have preached in may seem like heresy, but St. Mary's Parish Church never blushed one bit. Laurence Vittes: "In Scotland, East of Edinburgh": The Lammermuir Festival of 2011
  • White beaches, standing stones, flowers on the machair, Gaelic psalm-singing (which sounds like no other church music in Europe - a Chinese or Mongolian feel to it) and monstrous alcohol consumption on a Saturday night (an Englishman is best advised to avoid Stornoway dockside bars) followed by a real Sabbath - no shops, taxis, bars - you go for a walk or go to church. Archive 2005-06-26
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