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  2. Protestant church music during and after the Reformation

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    Organ music would play a large role in Lutheran music later on. Luther said that music ought to be “accorded the greatest honour and a place next to theology” due to its great importance. [20] During the Reformation, Luther did much to encourage the composition and publication of hymns, and wrote numerous worship songs in German. [21]

  3. List of hymns by Martin Luther - Wikipedia

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    The reformer Martin Luther, a prolific hymnodist, regarded music and especially hymns in German as important means for the development of faith.. Luther wrote songs for occasions of the liturgical year (Advent, Christmas, Purification, Epiphany, Easter, Pentecost, Trinity), hymns on topics of the catechism (Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer, creed, baptism, confession, Eucharist), paraphrases of ...

  4. Hymnody of continental Europe - Wikipedia

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    Music became more complicated as embellishments and variations were added, along with influences from secular music. Although vernacular leisen and vernacular or mixed-language carols were sung in the Middle Ages, more vernacular hymnody emerged during the Protestant Reformation, although ecclesiastical Latin continued to be used after the ...

  5. Reformation - Wikipedia

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    The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement or period or series of events in Western Christianity in 16th-century Northwestern Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

  6. Elizabethan Religious Settlement - Wikipedia

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    Examples of permissible music included metrical psalms and liturgical texts such as the Te Deum. Although most people were able to sing, worship was dominated by choral liturgies, especially in the cathedrals. During this time, motets were replaced by anthems, [56] and William Byrd's Great Service was composed for the royal chapel and ...

  7. Exclusive psalmody - Wikipedia

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    [1]: 40 During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther and many other reformers, including those associated with the Reformed tradition, used hymns as well as psalms, but John Calvin preferred the Psalms and they were the only music allowed for worship in Geneva. This became the norm for the next 200 years of Reformed worship.

  8. Lutheran chorale - Wikipedia

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    The third stanza of the eponymous chorale in Johann Sebastian Bach's setting as the final movement of his chorale cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140. A Lutheran chorale is a musical setting of a Lutheran hymn, intended to be sung by a congregation in a German Protestant Church service.

  9. Johann Walter - Wikipedia

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    By this time, he was the director of the chapel and had become an outspoken musical spokesman for Lutherans. Walter edited the first Protestant hymnal for choir, Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn , in Wittenberg in 1524, with a foreword by Martin Luther himself; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and for the German-language Deutsche Messe produced in 1527.