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Example sentences for "church music"

  • Although he tried to remedy the defect, it is noteworthy that he never acquired a mastery of this necessary aid to Church music, and its failure to make any lasting impression is largely due to this fact.

  • Two years later he married Cecile Jeanrenaud, the beautiful daughter of a minister of the Reformed Church in Frankfort, and shortly afterwards went to Berlin as general director of church music.

  • In 1841 he made a second journey to Italy and gave particular attention to church music.

  • He must have been one of the jolly monks of old, for all his cantatas are secular in character, and he was frequently censured for devoting so much time to theatrical instead of church music.

  • If this work could be fully examined it might throw important light upon the point reached in the practice of church music in his day; his notation, also, would be a matter of interest and possibly of importance.

  • Church music, like every other department of the art, has gone on in increasing complexity from the beginning until now.

  • The most eminent development of the polyphonic school, and at the same time the dawn of a better era in church music, took place in Rome, where the influence of the Netherlandish composer is noticeable.

  • One of the latest reforms was that begun by Pope Marcellus and the Council of Trent, which ordered from Palestrina an example of church music as it should be.

  • Indeed, the prevalence of popular songs soon became such that writers of church music began to use them instead of their being derived from church music, as was originally the case.

  • The mixing of the vernacular with Latin in this service is the first instance of the use of any language but Latin in church music.

  • In the Middle Ages folk song was used by the Church, and a certain amount of control was exercised over it; even up to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the use of sharps and flats was frowned upon in church music.

  • In a just medium lies all the virtue and good effect of Church Music.

  • THE great variety in Church Music which we have noticed during our tour of the churches naturally leads us to some remarks upon this subject.

  • I dwell;) nor let prejudice against melody, or church music (if you dwell where it is used) possess you with a splenetic disgust of that which should be your most joyful work.

  • Is church music by organs or such instruments, lawful?

  • Women were, by ecclesiastical law, excluded from participation in church music, and as the voices of boys could be used only for a few years, they did not suffice to meet the ever-increasing demands of church music.

  • Until the latter part of the sixteenth century, good musicians were devoted almost exclusively to church music, and held it beneath their dignity to take part in music of any other kind.

  • Chrysostom had to declaim against the secularisation of Church music.

  • Ambrose of Milan was the author of a new kind of church music full of melodious flow, with rhythmical accent and rich modulation, nobly popular and grandly simple (Cantus Ambrosianus).

  • Church music= was also greatly developed by the introduction of harmony and counterpoint.

  • Church music, which like other things had much deteriorated, received a share of the attention which in this century was given to the art.

  • Up to the middle of the last century women were forbidden by Ecclesiastical Law to take part in Church music.

  • We find a large proportion of church music.

  • For composers of church music it was important, since Benedict XIV.

  • The opera did not put a stop to Wolfgang's church music.

  • My correspondent names a new hindrance to church music in rural places, namely, the clergyman's daughter!

  • It closely resembles in form our anthem, but the German Protestants look upon the a capella style, which continues the tradition of the Sistine Chapel at Rome, as the purest and highest in church music.

  • I find boy altos very effective in modern church music, such as Mendelssohn's anthems, &c.

  • Church Music of a high degree of perfection.

  • Many Motetts and other Roman School | | Church music.


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