church music n 1: genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies [syn: {religious music}, {church music}]
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "church music": Negro spiritual, anthem, cantata, canticle, chorale, doxology, gospel, gospel music, hymn, hymn-tune, hymnody, hymnology, introit, mass, motet, offertory, offertory sentence, oratorio, paean, passion, prosodion, psalm, psalmody, recessional, requiem, requiem mass, sacred music, spiritual, white spiritual