music designed to be played in church inspired by or as part of services including religious texts
Sacred music
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a term used to distinguish passages played by soloists and those played by the whole orchestra
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a part for one player with or without accompanying instruments
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composition to be performed at the end of a church service as the clergy leaves the church
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purely diatonic series of sacred melodies or chants collected and introduced into the Catholic Church by St. Ambrose (c. 339…