- 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.
- Can give thanks twice for musical piece - Musical composition - Oratorio - Sung religious text - Unstaged musical work - Vocal composition - A poem set to music; a musical composition comprising
choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic
manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of
both recitative and melody.
- A going in. - A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect,
epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails
of the altar. - A part of a psalm or other portion of Scripture read by
the priest at Mass immediately after ascending to the altar. - An anthem or psalm sung before the Communion service. - Any composition of vocal music appropriate to the opening
of church services.
- Musical composition - Musical piece - Repetitive piece of music - A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively,
cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the
other strains. - See Rondeau, 1.