church singing

The church singing was done in his free time while he worked at the bank during the day.

Among his many articles on musical subjects, a treatise about old Russian church singing deserves particular attention.

This strong participation of lay people in the church singing was and still remains a relatively unique phenomenon among the similar chanting traditions.

Because of the importance of religious lessons, classes of church singing were held from the very beginning of the school.

I had that operation on Monday and on Thursday I was at rehearsal and on Sunday I was in church singing, stitches and all.

Gottfried W. Locher writes, "The old assertion 'Zwingli was against church singing' holds good no longer.... Zwingli's polemic is concerned exclusively with the medieval Latin choral and priestly chanting and not with the hymns of evangelical congregations or choirs".

In Belgrade, under Austrian rule at the time, a Greek singing school was founded in 1721, and at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, the Karlowitz style of church singing was developed in Sremski Karlovci, the see of the Serbian metropolis.