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Christian
music
Christian music is music created by or adapted for the Christian
church. It also includes Contemporary Christian music, in which
the music explores Christian themes but is designed to be played
in places other than churches. Music during service for many churches
is a big part of the worship. Hymns are sung, psalms are vocalized
and spiritual songs are uplifted to praise God.
Sometimes, musical instruments are played while singing is implemented
in the service. On the other hand, some times churches use just
a cappella to worship God. At times, just musical instruments are
only used to express praise towards God. More recently, in newer
and more charistmatic churches, music played by bands accompanies
whole songs that are sung to worship God. All of these ways are
used by one church or another in this period of time.
There is record of the earliest music
of the Christian church in a few New Testament books of what are
probably hymns. Some of these fragments are still sung as hymns
today in the Orthodox Church, including "Awake, awake O sleeper"
on the occasion of someone's baptism.
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Being Jewish, Jesus and his disciples would most likely have
sung the psalms from memory. However, without a centralised
music industry, the repertoire of ordinary people was much
greater than it is today, so they probably knew other songs
too. Early Christians continued to sing the psalms much as
they were sung in the synagogues in the first century.
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