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Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, [1] Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, [2] [3] [4] which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade [5] and for centuries afterwards, through ...
Moses George Hogan (March 13, 1957 – February 11, 2003) was an American composer and arranger of choral music. He was best known for his settings of spirituals.Hogan was a pianist, conductor, and arranger of international renown.
Gospel music is a traditional genre of Christian music and a cornerstone of Christian media. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of ...
List of Catholic Church musicians is a list of people who perform or compose Catholic music, a branch of Christian music.Names should be limited to those whose Catholicism affected their music and should preferably only include those musicians whose works have been performed liturgically in a Catholic service, or who perform specifically in a Catholic religious context.
This category of Classical composers of church music contains those individuals who write/wrote music in the traditional forms, also known as classical music (not limited to the classical music era), and a significant proportion of whose output is/was church music
This list includes artists that perform in traditional gospel music genres such as Southern gospel, traditional black gospel, urban contemporary gospel, gospel blues, Christian country music, Celtic gospel and British black gospel as well as artists in the general market who have recorded music in these genres
Recent interpretations of the classical version of this spiritual have been made by a Chicago violinist, Rachel Barton Pine, who has been working along the lines of Powell's legacy. [10] The Deep River Boys recorded their version in Oslo on August 29, 1958. Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album 101 Gang Songs (1961).
During the first two or three centuries, Christian communities incorporated into their observances features of Greek music and the music of other cultures bordering on the eastern Mediterranean Sea. [4] As the early Church spread from Jerusalem to Asia Minor, North Africa, and Europe, it absorbed other musical influences.