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Sacred music
Scope note
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.
Cataloger's note
2
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)
►
▼
NT3
↓
Compline music
NT3
↓
Lauds (Music)
NT3
↓
Vespers (Music)
NT2
↓
Epiphany music
NT2
↓
Evening service music
►
▼
NT3
↓
Vespers (Music)
NT2
↓
Falsobordone
NT2
↓
Feast of the Transfiguration music
NT2
↓
Gospel music
►
▼
NT3
↓
Contemporary Christian music
NT3
↓
Country gospel music
NT2
↓
Gregorian chants
►
▼
NT3
↓
Graduals (Chants)
NT3
↓
Prosulas (Music)
NT3
↓
Reproaches (Chants)
NT3
↓
Sequences (Music)
NT3
↓
Tropes (Music)
NT2
↓
Hēvisi (Music)
NT2
↓
Hymns
►
▼
NT3
↓
Alabados
NT3
↓
Chorales
NT3
↓
Goigs
NT3
↓
Hymn concertatos
NT3
↓
Piyutim
►
▼
NT4
↓
Avodah piyyutim
NT4
↓
Maʻaravot
NT3
↓
Spirituals (Songs)
NT2
↓
Kāfī (Music)
NT2
↓
Laude
NT2
↓
Lenten music
►
▼
NT3
↓
Holy Week music
►
▼
NT4
↓
Saetas
NT4
↓
Sepolcri
NT3
↓
Reproaches (Chants)
NT2
↓
Litanies (Music)
NT2
↓
Masses
►
▼
NT3
↓
Requiems
NT2
↓
Michaelmas music
NT2
↓
Mission music
NT2
↓
Morning service music
►
▼
NT3
↓
Lauds (Music)
NT3
↓
Orthros (Music)
NT2
↓
Organ masses
NT2
↓
Organa
NT2
↓
Palos (Music)
NT2
↓
Pentecost Festival music
NT2
↓
Peyote songs
NT2
↓
Propers (Music)
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▼
NT3
↓
Alleluias (Chants)
NT3
↓
Graduals (Chants)
NT3
↓
Introits (Music)
NT3
↓
Offertories (Music)
NT3
↓
Prokeimena
NT3
↓
Transitoria (Music)
NT2
↓
Prostopinije
NT2
↓
Psalms (Music)
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▼
NT3
↓
Penitential psalms (Music)
NT2
↓
Qurʼanic recitations
NT2
↓
Ramadan music
NT2
↓
Rappresentazioni sacre (Music)
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▼
NT3
↓
Sepolcri
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
►
▼
NT3
↓
Cantorial music
NT2
↓
Trinity Sunday music
NT2
↓
Visitation Festival music
NT2
↓
Yom Kippur music
Date of creation
15-Feb-2021
Modified
31-Dec-1969
Accepted term
15-Feb-2021
Descendant terms
15
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More specific terms
53
Alternative terms
3
Related terms
0
Notes
3
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