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A secular hymn is a type of non-religious popular song that has elements in common with religious music, especially with Christian hymns.The concept goes back at least as far as 17 BCE when the Roman emperor Augustus commissioned the Roman poet Horace to write lyrics by that title ("Carmen Saeculare" in Latin).
Non-religious secular music and sacred music were the two main genres of Western music during the Middle Ages and Renaissance era. [ citation needed ] The oldest written examples of secular music are songs with Latin lyrics. [ 1 ]
"Go Tell It on the Mountain" is an African-American spiritual song and Christmas carol which was most likely derived from the oral tradition, but was first printed in an early-1900s compilation of African-American folk songs. [1] It has been sung and recorded by many gospel and secular performers.
The Red Book of Ossory is a 14th-century manuscript containing a number of poems on sacred subjects intended to replace the lyrics of pre-existing songs. The manuscript's compiler, Richard de Ledrede, Bishop of Ossory, intended thereby to discourage clerics in his diocese from singing "songs that are lewd, secular, and associated with revelry".
It was probably used for this purpose more than any other secular song: over 40 settings are known. Many composers of the Renaissance set at least one mass on this melody; the two settings by Josquin , the Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales , and the Missa L'homme armé sexti toni are among the best known.
Many Israeli secular musicians explore topics such as the Jewish and Israeli people, Zionism and nationalism, agriculture and the land of Israel, and the Arab–Israeli conflict. Israeli popular music for the most part uses borrowed American forms like rock and alternative rock, pop, heavy metal, hip hop, rap and trance.
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is possibly the most sung and most recorded hymn in the world, and especially popular in the United States, where it is used for both religious and secular purposes.
"Turn! Turn! Turn!", also known as or subtitled "To Everything There Is a Season", is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1959. [1] The lyrics – except for the title, which is repeated throughout the song, and the final two lines – consist of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes. The song was originally released in 1962 as "To Everything There Is a ...