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unusual facts about Secular music



Lilit Pipoyan

She is fond of medieval secular songs, for which she creates modern arrangements or new melodies when the originals are lost, with distinctly Armenian character.


see also

Christian country music

Christian country music (sometimes marketed as Country Gospel or Inspirational Country) is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.

Concert music

Classical music, the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times.

Jean-Baptiste Boësset

Jean-Baptiste Boësset (16141685) was a French composer of sacred and secular music, whose notable works include an Ave Regina and several airs de cour.

Land of Lakes Choirboys

Known for singing works of various musicians such as Bach and Antonio Vivaldi, the choristers sing religious and secular music.

Nico Dostal

After participating in World War I, Dostal worked as the theatre Kapellmeister in Innsbruck, St. Pölten, Vienna, Chernivtsi and Salzburg, before moving to Berlin in 1924, where he turned his hand to secular music.

Polyphony

Avignon, the seat of the antipopes, was a vigorous center of secular music-making, much of which influenced sacred polyphony.

Sippie Wallace

In the 1930s, she left show business to become a church organist, singer, and choir director in Detroit, and performed secular music only sporadically until the 1960s, when she resumed her career.

Stepan Davydov

In the field of secular music Davydov participated in the composing of opera tetralogy Mermaid (together with Ferdinand Kauer and Catterino Cavos, 1803–1807, providing the additional music for the 1st, 3rd and 4th parts).

The 2nd Coming

This album would be the final Mr. Del album to have a Parental Advisory logo and profane lyrics as Mr. Del would soon leave the Secular music scene for the Contemporary Christian music scene shortly after the release of this album.

The Night Before Larry Was Stretched

The melody and first verse of "To the Hundreds of Drury I write" are in John Barry Talley's 'Secular Music in Colonial Annapolis', 1988.