Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap...

opposed to art music or folk music; or, as another example, religious music and secular music. The artistic nature of music means that these classifications...

the principal types of religious Jewish music from the days of the Temple to modern times. The history of religious Jewish music is about the cantorial...

Abdelfattah (of the Cairo Conservatory) have gained international attention. Religious music remains an essential part of traditional Sufi Muslim and Coptic Christian...

censorship. In many parts of the Muslim world devotional/religious music and secular music is well developed and popular. In recent decades, "the advent...

Islamic music may refer to religious music, as performed in Islamic public services or private devotions, or more generally to musical traditions of the...

secular and religious, or sacred, music (such as the sharakan Armenian chant and taghs, along with the indigenous khaz musical notation). Folk music was notably...

associated music and ritual. Iranian religious music is defined as the music that has been used in streets, mosques, holy places and on religious occasions...

number of hamd and naat singers in Pakistan. This is a type of Islamic religious music where poetical verses of the love for God (Allah) is expressed. Some...

The Afghan concept of music is closely associated with instruments, and thus unaccompanied religious singing is not considered music. Koran recitation is...