church music
Choir's Sunday repertoire
Church music is music composed or performed for Christian worship services.
The term covers a wide range: Gregorian chant, hymns, gospel, contemporary praise songs, and classical works like masses and oratorios.
The choir director selected church music for the Easter service.
The style varies enormously by denomination and tradition.
- hymnReligious song of praise
- Sunday hymnsReligious songs sung weekly
- organBody's working component
- canticleScriptural text sung devotionally
- motetSacred polyphonic choral work
praise and worship · psalmody · anthem · Amazing Grace · requiem · Gregorian chant · offertory · chant · chorale · polyphony · doxology · vespers · stained glass windows · devotional · reverent · amen · congregation · pipe organ
- church lifeworship service, prayer group, youth group, small group, praise team
- Americana Musicspirituals, folk ballads, hymn books, Camptown Races, Beautiful Dreamer
- Byzantine legacyConstantinople, Hagia Sophia, Byzantine art, Eastern Orthodoxy, iconography
- Colonial MusicYankee Doodle, Chester, shape-note singing, folk hymns, fife
- Jazz Originsblues, ragtime, spirituals, syncopation, New Orleans
- SpiritualsAmazing Grace, Go Down Moses, slave songs, spirituals, call and response
church musicsecular music
Non-sacred musical works
club music · pop music · dance music · lounge music · radio hits
church musicdeath metal
Extreme subgenre with growls
black metal · bawdy songs · drinking songs · gangsta rap · explicit lyrics
church musicpunk rock
Stripped-down aggressive rock genre
heavy metal · protest music · underground music · industrial music