spiritual music
Music for worship
Spiritual music is religious or devotional music, especially African American folk songs that emerged from slavery in the American South.
These spirituals blend Christian themes with African musical traditions, often expressing suffering, hope, and liberation: Wade in the Water, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
The term extends broadly to any music intended to uplift the spirit or connect with the divine.
- mantraRepeated focus phrase
- prayer beadsCounting aid for worship
- singing bowlPercussion instrument for meditation
- church organKeyed wind instrument in sanctuaries
- Gregorian chantMonophonic Catholic liturgical music
requiem · canticle · Kyrie · chorale · Amazing Grace · antiphon · psalm · hymn · spirituals · call and response · chant · African drumming · throat singing · gospel · shofar · harmonium · devotional · drone
- Sufismtariqa, fana, sufi, Sufism, dervish
- Tibetan musicTibetan chants, Buddhist chants, prayer songs, mantras, throat singing
- hymnsAmazing Grace, Old Rugged Cross, Morning Has Broken, hymn, hymnal
- Islamic musiccall to prayer, devotional songs, religious chants, Quran recitation, prayer songs
- tribal songsceremonial songs, healing song, ritual songs, tribal songs, war song
spiritual musicsecular music
Non-sacred musical works
pop music · dance music · club music · Top 40 · lounge music
spiritual musicbawdy songs
Vulgar lyrics set to music
drinking songs · explicit lyrics · gangsta rap · club bangers