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What Are Spirituals In Music?

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What Are Spirituals In Music? Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, Spiritual music, or African-American spirituals) is a genre of music that is “purely and solely the creation” of generations of African Americans, which merged African cultural heritage with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the … Why did

What Is Sacred Choral Music?

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What Is Sacred Choral Music? Classical Music > Choral-Sacred. This category includes works written for performance during religious services or on solemn occasions. Before the baroque period, most sacred choral works were performed ‘a capella’, which means without instrumental or orchestral accompaniment. What are examples of sacred music? Machaut, Messe de Notre Dame. … Palestrina,