prayer songs
Devotional musical worship
Prayer songs are musical compositions intended as acts of worship or spiritual communication.
The term appears across religious traditions—hymns, spirituals, chants, and devotional music all qualify.
Unlike prayers spoken, prayer songs add melody and often communal participation: The congregation raised their voices in prayer songs.
The phrase emphasizes the devotional purpose over musical style.
- Negro spiritualsEnslaved African Americans' sacred music
- call and responseAlternating vocal pattern
- Gregorian chantMonophonic Catholic liturgical music
- hymnReligious song of praise
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
psalm · ritual songs · chant · litany · mantra · supplication · meditation · invocation · spiritual reflection · choir · choir loft · canticle · voices · praise and worship · kneeling · holy spirit · amen · harmony
- Children's Hymnschildren's hymns, Sunday school songs, bible songs, action songs, peace songs
- Russian songsfolk songs, love songs, wedding songs, drinking songs, work songs
- Mesoamerican ritualshuman sacrifice, blood sacrifice, bloodletting, ritual offerings, sun worship
- gospel musicgospel hymns, gospel quartet, mass choir, praise songs, gospel choir
- Israeli musichora, folk revival, festival music, Eurovision, cantors
- Native Literatureindigenous authors, indigenous voices, tribal stories, creation stories, trickster tales
prayer songsdrinking songs
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club anthems · pop songs · love songs · work songs · dance music