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CHURCH MUSIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does church music mean? 

CHURCH MUSIC (noun)
  The noun CHURCH MUSIC has 1 sense:

1. genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremoniesplay

  Familiarity information: CHURCH MUSIC used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHURCH MUSIC (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

church music; religious music

Hypernyms ("church music" is a kind of...):

genre; music genre; musical genre; musical style (an expressive style of music)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "church music"):

antiphon; antiphony (a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response)

Mass (a musical setting for a Mass)

processional; prosodion (religious music used in a procession)

antiphonal; antiphonary (bound collection of antiphons)

religious song (religious music for singing)


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