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Liturgical music is well known as a part of Catholic Mass, the Anglican Holy Communion service (or Eucharist) and Evensong, the Lutheran Divine Service, the Orthodox liturgy, and other Christian services, including the Divine Office.
Liturgical music, music written for performance in a religious rite of worship. The term is most commonly associated with the Christian tradition. Christian liturgical music developed from the musical practices of the Jewish synagogues.
A selection of hymns and songs, based on themes from the Roman Catholic lectionary for the twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary time, Year B. Most are free-to-use (ie public domain or copyright-free) meaning the words can be copied and sung to at least one tune with no concerns about copyright or performance licensing.
In this entry, the term "liturgical music" encompasses all types of music used in all Christian liturgies. This entry covers developments in the theology and practice of liturgical music in the Roman Catholic Church since the end of the Second Vatican Council.
The history of liturgical music in the U.S., like that of general music, is a study as variegated as the plurality of cultural and religious backgrounds represented in the nation's early settlers and later immigrants.
Church music is Christian 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.
The huge diversity of forms, styles, and functions in the music used for Christian worship (both historically and today) makes it difficult to define a category of liturgical music.
Contemporary Catholic liturgical music encompasses a comprehensive variety of styles of music for Catholic liturgy that grew both before and after the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II).
Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ceremony. It includes a number of traditions, both ancient and modern. Liturgical music is best known as a part of Catholic Mass, the Anglican Holy Communion service, the Lutheran mass, the Orthodox liturgy and other Christian
Sacred music, in those aspects which concern the liturgical renewal, was carefully considered by the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. It explained its role in divine services, issued a number of principles and laws on this subject in the Constitution on the Liturgy, and devoted to it an entire chapter of the same Constitution. 2.