sacred songs
Worship through melody
Sacred songs are musical compositions with religious or spiritual content, typically sung in worship services, ceremonies, or devotional contexts.
The term encompasses hymns, spirituals, gospel music, chants, and other forms intended to honor the divine or express faith.
Sacred songs contrast with secular music in their purpose and subject matter, though the boundary can blur when religious themes appear in popular genres.
The choir performed sacred songs during the candlelight service.
- hymnReligious song of praise
- hymn bookReligious song collection
- psalmSacred scriptural song
- Amazing GraceHymn about divine mercy
- spiritualRelating to the soul
choral · choir loft · gospel · call and response · canticle · anthem · church music · oratorio · chant · plainsong · Gregorian chant · motet · oral tradition · prayer · benediction · voices · invocation · requiem
- Children's Hymnschildren's hymns, children's choir, Amazing Grace, Kumbaya, Glory
- vocal musicsong, vocals, soprano, tenor, alto
- sacred musichymns, hymn, anthem, anthems, gospel
- choral musicchoral music, choral works, choral arrangements, choral arrangement, choir arrangements
- church hymnshymnal, hymnals, Catholic hymns, choral hymns, gospel hymns
- church musicanthems, hymnal, masses, hymnbook, canticles
sacred songssecular music
Non-sacred musical works
bawdy songs · pop songs · love songs · drinking songs · folk songs