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Meanings of ecclesiastical music in English

Russian
религиозная музыка
Portuguese
música religiosa
Catalan
música sacra
Spanish
musica religiosa

Music genre.

      Related terms
      религиозная музыка
      Synonyms
      Examples for "religious music"
      Examples for "religious music"
      1
      The child needs to be led into a knowledge of religious music.
      How to Teach Religion / Principles and Methods
      2
      The faithful in Spain blasted religious music from their balconies during Holy Week.
      The South African
      3
      A high standard was thus reached and maintained in religious music.
      Beethoven, a character study / Together with Wagner's indebtedne...
      4
      Going back to the very beginning of western religious music.
      Radio NZ
      5
      Instead of religious music (which is banned) they opted for Cole Porter.
      The Guardian
      1
      We had a great deal of sacred music and singing on Sunday.
      A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
      2
      The Doctor decided that a little sacred music would not be amiss.
      Eminent Victorians
      3
      On Sunday nights there are performances of sacred music in the great dining-hall.
      A Woman-Hater
      4
      It may be called sacred music and suitable to the day, I hope.
      For Woman's Love
      5
      That the veteran's death-song should be perpetuated in sacred music is not strange.
      The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
      1
      His guitar style is as much inspired by qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music, as it is by Mike Waterson.
      The Guardian
      2
      To remove her music from its context as devotional music is to misunderstand it - it is fundamentally music for worship.
      The Irish Times
      3
      Take one significant shift in seventeenth-century Europe: a proportion of public Christian devotional music was being turned into a personal leisure activity.
      Christianity: the first three thousand years
      4
      Here's a suggestion: next time out, why not stick him and his devotional music in the plush, spectral surrounds of Christchurch Cathedral?
      The Irish Times
      5
      For what amounts to a collection of devotional music, it's as well to suspend all disbelief before dedicating some time to discovering this wayward gem.
      The Irish Times
      Usage of ecclesiastical music in English
      1
      Suitably, for a young man making ecclesiastical music, he leads an almost monastic lifestyle.
      The Guardian
      2
      Although in our own time it has achieved a field for itself, yet in oratorios and ecclesiastical music the old conception remains.
      Myth and Science / An Essay
      3
      The excessive devotion of the marshal was also noticed; he was said to hear mass thrice daily, and to be passionately fond of ecclesiastical music.
      The Book of Were-Wolves
      4
      " Ecclesiastical music," said the artist, "is a real anarchy; but in the Church everything is anarchy.
      The Shadow of the Cathedral