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  2. Religious music - Wikipedia

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    Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as a ritual. Religious songs have been described as a source of strength, as well as a means of easing pain ...

  3. Moravian Church music - Wikipedia

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    String music is prevalent in all of the instrumental music collections, with genres ranging from works for unaccompanied violin through classical symphonies. The final aspect and the “heart and soul” of Moravian music is the sacred vocal music. This was music specifically written for worship services.

  4. Liturgical music - Wikipedia

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    Liturgical music originated as a part of religious ceremony, and includes a number of traditions, both ancient and modern.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.

  5. Christian worship - Wikipedia

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    The worship has two parts; one in the beginning with music and the second part with sermon and Lord's Supper. [12] In the 1980s and 1990s, Contemporary worship music settled in many evangelical churches. [13] [14] This music is written in the style of popular music, Christian rock or folk music and therefore differs considerably from ...

  6. Christian music - Wikipedia

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    Like other forms of music the creation, performance, significance and even the definition of Christian music varies according to culture and social context. Christian music is composed and performed for many purposes, ranging from aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes or with a positive message as an entertainment product for the ...

  7. Liturgy - Wikipedia

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    Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. [1] As a religious phenomenon, liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activities reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembrance, supplication, or repentance. It forms a basis for establishing a relationship with God.

  8. History of music in the biblical period - Wikipedia

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    David Playing the Harp by Jan de Bray, 1670.. Knowledge of the biblical period is mostly from literary references in the Bible and post-biblical sources. Religion and music historian Herbert Lockyer, Jr. writes that "music, both vocal and instrumental, was well cultivated among the Hebrews, the New Testament Christians, and the Christian church through the centuries."

  9. Glossary of spirituality terms - Wikipedia

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    Sacrifice: (from a Middle English verb meaning 'to make sacred', from Old French, from Latin sacrificium : sacer, sacred; sacred + facere, to make) Commonly known as the practice of offering food, or the lives of animals or people to the gods, as an act of propitiation or worship.