Religious Definition–adjective | 1. | of, pertaining to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday. |
| 2. | imbued with or exhibiting religion; pious; devout; godly: a r
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eligious man. |
| 3. | scrupulously faithful; conscientious: religious care. |
| 4. | pertaining to or connected with a monastic or religious order. |
| 5. | appropriate to religion or to sacred rites or observances. |
–noun | 6. | a member of a religious order, congregation, etc.; a monk, friar, or nun. |
| 7. | the religious, devout or religious persons: Each year, thousands of the religious make pilgrimages to the shrine. |
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Music Definition–noun | 1. | an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. |
| 2. | the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be
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sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both. |
| 3. | musical work or compositions for singing or playing. |
| 4. | the written or printed score of a musical composition. |
| 5. | such scores collectively. |
| 6. | any sweet, pleasing, or harmonious sounds or sound: the music of the waves. |
| 7. | appreciation of or responsiveness to musical sounds or harmonies: Music was in his very soul. |
| 8. | Fox Hunting. the cry of the hounds. |
—Idiom| 9. | face the music, to meet, take, or accept the consequences of one's mistakes, actions, etc.: He's squandered his money and now he's got to face the music. |
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any attire, accoutrements, and markings used in religious rituals that may be corporate, domestic, or personal in nature. Such dress may comprise types of coverings all the way from the highly ...
liturgical music
music written for performance in a religious rite of worship; the term is most commonly associated with the Christian tradition. Developing from the musical practices of the Jewish synagogues, which ...
music, Western
history of Western music from ancient times to the present.music festival
usually a series of performances at a particular place and inspired by a unifying theme, such as national music, modern music, or the promotion of a prominent composer's works. It may also take the ...
gospel music
a form of black American music derived from church worship services and from spiritual (q.v.) and blues singing. Gospel music spread through song publishing, concerts, recordings, and radio and ...
klezmer music
genre of music derived from and built upon eastern European music in the Jewish tradition. The common usage of the term developed about 1980; historically, a klezmer (plural: klezmorim or klezmers) ...
Latin American music
musical traditions of Mexico, Central America, and the portions of South America and the Caribbean colonized by the Spanish and the Portuguese. These traditions reflect the distinctive mixtures of ...
Postromantic music
musical style typical of the last decades of the 19th century and first decades of the 20th century and characterized by exaggeration of certain elements of the musical Romanticism of the 19th ...
South Africa
Many popular South African arts represent a fusion of cultural influences, such as township jazz and pop music, religious choral music, and so-called "traditional" dances performed competitively by ...
arts, East Asian
In the poetry-oriented court life of Japan, secular vocal music would obviously be important. Many of the poems in classical collections seemed originally to have been song texts. One of the oldest ...
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CBC - Found Oct. 13, 2008
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Athens News Courier - Found Oct. 12, 2008
... has received an Award of Distinction in the 2008 Ministry of Music Awards program conducted by the National Religious Music Week Alliance.
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The Times - Found Oct. 9, 2008
This interesting that while western classical - often religious - music has been booming in China since the cultural revolution ends, suddenly is it
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Easier - Found Oct. 8, 2008
... part in the Foundation�s initiatives, and in so doing, contributes to the preservation of sacred music and religious art in places of...
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Guardian Unlimited - Found Oct. 8, 2008
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The Australian - Found Oct. 8, 2008
... has recently begun to restrict the presentation of religious music in public. This effectively excludes almost all Western choral music.
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China's purge of sacred music seems profane
The Australian - Found Oct. 5, 2008
... has recently begun to restrict the presentation of religious music in public. This effectively excludes almost all Western choral music.
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China bans performances of Western religious music
The West Online - Found Oct. 3, 2008
Public performances of Handel's Messiah and other major works of Western religious music have been banned by China's culture ministry.
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Malvern Gazette - Found Oct. 13, 2008
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