Church music

The Liber responsorialis, showing on the right-hand page the antiphons for the first Matins|night office of Christmas. The associated [[psalm tones are indicated by number and ending pitch, and the pitches for the ending of the doxology are indicated by the mnemonic Euouae.|thumb]]

chief singer, and usually instructor, employed at a church, a cathedral or monastery

Christian music written for performance in church

group of musicians

metrical psalter, choral book

Plainsong or plainchant (calque from the French ; ) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church. When referring to the term plainsong, it is those sacred pieces that are composed in Latin text. Plainsong was the exclusive form of the Western Christian church music until the ninth century and the introduction of polyphony.

pontifical music school in Vatican

Traditional Christmas service

typically a small hand-held bell or set of bell

music genre

practice of singing only the biblical Psalms in congregational singing as worship

early musical instrument