Sacred music
Sacred music
Musical compositions expressing personal or communal religious or spiritual beliefs, for use in devotional settings and/or general performance. For texts of sacred music that appear without a musical setting see Sacred music texts.
LC (2017) Subject Usage: 406
WC (2017) Subject Usage: 10,259
Alternative terms
- UF↸ Liturgical music
- UF↸ Religious music
- UF↸ Worship music
Broader Terms
- BT↑ Music
More specific terms
- NT2 ↓ Advent music
- NT2 ↓ All Saints' Day music
- NT2 ↓ Antiphons (Music)
- NT2 ↓ Ascension Day music
- NT2 ↓ Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament (Music)
- NT2 ↓ Candlemas music
- NT2 ↓ Canticles
- NT2 ↓ Cantillations
- NT2 ↓ Chorale preludes
- NT2 ↓ Clausulas (Songs)
- NT2 ↓ Communion service music
- NT2 ↓ Conductus
- NT2 ↓ Corpus Christi Festival music
- NT2 ↓ Dāphā (Music)
- NT2 ↓ Divine Office (Music) ►
- NT2 ↓ Epiphany music
- NT2 ↓ Evening service music ►
- NT2 ↓ Falsobordone
- NT2 ↓ Feast of the Transfiguration music
- NT2 ↓ Gospel music ►
- NT2 ↓ Gregorian chants ►
- NT2 ↓ Hēvisi (Music)
- NT2 ↓ Hymns ►
- NT2 ↓ Kāfī (Music)
- NT2 ↓ Laude
- NT2 ↓ Lenten music ►
- NT2 ↓ Litanies (Music)
- NT2 ↓ Masses ►
- NT2 ↓ Michaelmas music
- NT2 ↓ Mission music
- NT2 ↓ Morning service music ►
- NT2 ↓ Organ masses
- NT2 ↓ Organa
- NT2 ↓ Palos (Music)
- NT2 ↓ Pentecost Festival music
- NT2 ↓ Peyote songs
- NT2 ↓ Propers (Music) ►
- NT2 ↓ Prostopinije
- NT2 ↓ Psalms (Music) ►
- NT2 ↓ Qurʼanic recitations
- NT2 ↓ Ramadan music
- NT2 ↓ Rappresentazioni sacre (Music) ►
- NT2 ↓ Reformation Festival music
- NT2 ↓ Responses (Music)
- NT2 ↓ Sabbath music
- NT2 ↓ Shavuot music
- NT2 ↓ Shōmyō
- NT2 ↓ Simḥat Torah music
- NT2 ↓ Sukkot music
- NT2 ↓ Synagogue music ►
- NT2 ↓ Trinity Sunday music
- NT2 ↓ Visitation Festival music
- NT2 ↓ Yom Kippur music
