Sentences with phrase «liturgical music»

Liturgical music refers to the songs or music that is used during religious ceremonies or services, such as in churches or temples. It is specifically created and performed to enhance worship and foster a spiritual atmosphere during these sacred events. Full definition
The liturgical choir sings responses and liturgical music in both English and Slovanic.
He'd make hundreds of handshake connections at community events, then find solitude well past midnight in his condo or office, immersing himself in paperwork, books, Gregorian chants or Armenian liturgical music.
The «religiously devout» is important, for Geck puts to death the notion, prominent from the early 1960s through the 1980s, that correct dating of Bach's cantata production proves that his interest in writing liturgical music was a professional obligation only and that Bach had no abiding commitment to the religious texts he was paid to set.
The distinction must be clarified in order for us to properly engage with liturgical music, which is a distinct phenomenon used to one end only: to serve God in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist.
In order to understand liturgical music we must understand the dichotomy of the world in which it exists.
Funny you should ask, for I have just been receiving glowing reports on the work of Father Anthony Ruff at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, who pulled together an international conference on liturgical music last summer and is determined to make it an annual event.
One of Manhattan's most illustrious Episcopal congregations, Saint Thomas Church is best known for its glorious liturgical music and the stunning architecture of its 1913 church building, in French High Gothic style, on Fifth Avenue at Fifty - Third Street.
Many of my generation received their upbringing surrounded by bland, ugly, and often downright counter-mystical modern church architecture, hidden tabernacles, and banal modern liturgical music more suitable to failed off - Broadway theater.
Traditional liturgical music also complements Bishop Barron's emphasis on the Christian fulfillment of the Old Testament, in that it is suffused with the language of the Psalms.
He is also a trained vocalist in Jewish liturgical music.
The movie had a better sense of liturgical music than most Catholic parishes: Actually, the real reason I like to see any film in which the Catholic Church is featured prominently concerns the music.
Many African features can also be observed in, for instance, liturgical music and dance.
Gradually we are moving beyond a sense of «liturgical music» to a sense of «musical liturgy.»
Hence our liturgical music has to be more than mere utility music.
We are hearing less about «performing» liturgical music and more about the importance of ensuring musical liturgy — a happy omen indeed.
The movie had a better sense of liturgical music than most Catholic parishes.
Nor do I believe that the Gregorian chant is the necessary model for all liturgical music, but I am violently protesting against it disappearance.
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