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Religious music   /rɪlˈɪdʒəs mjˈuzɪk/   Listen
Religious music

noun
1.
Genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies.  Synonym: church music.





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... reverence and belief. It happened to be the festival of the Saint, and from a distance of 10 or 20 miles even the road was crowded with persons going or coming to their favourite shrine. You will recollect what Mme. de Stael says of the Germans' taste for religious music. Of this we had a specimen to-day. As we passed the height upon which the Chapel stood a boat containing 40 or 50 people put off from the shore and preceded us for several miles chaunting almost the whole way hymns and psalms. In the Evening, soon after leaving ...
— Before and after Waterloo - Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802;1814;1814) • Edward Stanley


Words linked to "Religious music" :   antiphonal, musical genre, antiphon, religious song, musical style, processional, antiphonary, antiphony, genre, prosodion, music genre, mass


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