#religious_song__religioussong  religious music for singing
  supertype:  #religious_music__religiousmusic__church_music  genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies
  subtype:  #chant  a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone
     subtype:  #Hallel  (Judaism) a chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh
     subtype:  #Hare_Krishna  a chant to the Hindu god Krishna
     subtype:  #plainsong__plainchant__Gregorian_chant  a liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church
        subtype:  #cantus_firmus  a melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition
  subtype:  #Negro_spiritual__spiritual  a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
  subtype:  #Christmas_carol__christmascarol__carol  joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ
  subtype:  #hymn__anthem  a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
     subtype:  #dithyramb.hymn  (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus)
     subtype:  #doxology  a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God
     subtype:  #chorale__choral  a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune
     subtype:  #canticle  a hymn derived from the Bible
        subtype:  #Magnificat  the canticle of the Virgin Mary (from Luke 1:46 beginning "Magnificat anima mea Dominum")
     subtype:  #Dies_Irae  the first words of a medieval Latin hymn describing the Last Judgment (literally "day of wrath")
     subtype:  #Internationale  a revolutionary socialist anthem
     subtype:  #paean  a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)
     subtype:  #recessional  a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
     subtype:  #Te_Deum__tedeum  an ancient liturgical hymn
     subtype:  #national_anthem  a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation
        subtype:  #Marseillaise  the French national anthem
        subtype:  #Star-Spangled_Banner  a poem written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 was set to music and adopted by Congress in 1931 as the national anthem of the United States

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