ritual songs
Sacred musical traditions
Ritual songs are musical compositions performed as part of religious ceremonies, spiritual practices, or culturally significant observances.
They accompany rites of passage, seasonal celebrations, worship services, and traditional gatherings, often following prescribed forms passed down through generations.
The songs may invoke deities, mark transitions like births or deaths, or bind participants together in shared experience.
The shaman began the healing ceremony with ancient ritual songs.
- praise songsDevotional musical compositions
- sacred hymnsDevotional songs for worship
- devotional musicSongs for religious worship
- lamentationsExpressions of grief
- hymnsReligious songs of worship
ancestor worship · wedding songs · psalms · call and response · mantras · invocations · harvest songs · prayer songs · dirges · funeral rites · chanting · requiems · sea shanties · oral traditions · dance tunes · incantation · burial · intoning
- folk songstraditional songs, folk ballads, work songs, lullaby, love songs
- Russian songsfolk songs, love songs, wedding songs, drinking songs, work songs
- ancient songsbardic songs, dirges, elegies, epic songs, harvest songs
- rain ritualsrain dance, rain dances, rain sticks, thunder gods, water spirits
- Korean LiteraturePachinko, Korean translations, translated works, novels, literary traditions
- Balkan Musictambura, pop-folk, folk-pop, ethno-pop, island music
ritual songspop music
Catchy, commercial song genre
background music · drinking songs · elevator music · novelty songs · muzak
ritual songsfreestyle
Without prescribed technique
jam sessions · scat singing · musical improvisation · shower singing · whistling
ritual songssecular music
Non-sacred musical works
bawdy songs · work songs · protest songs · love songs · drinking songs