- Church song - Musical composition - Musical work - Religious song - Sacred song - Vocal composition - A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate
polyphonic church style; an anthem.
- Christmas song - Church song - Has your minister never started with a religious song? - Hey, men lack ease over religious song - Religious choral work - Religious song - Sacred anthem
- Smooth ditty heard in church service - Vespers - A song for the evening; the evening service or form of
worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline);
also, the time of evensong.
- Part song for unaccompanied voices - A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem,
containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought. - An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more
parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation,
and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best
sung with several voices on a part. See Glee.
- Break - A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the
acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the
tedium of waiting. - A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry,
and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the
transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama. - A short piece of instrumental music played between the
parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in
church music, a short passage played by the organist between the
stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.