Church Choir Singing

Description of Animation: three female choir members singing together in blue robes

"Brunswick Women’s Choir is one of Australia’s longest standing female choirs with a rock solid reputation for delivering great, gutsy music to bring about change." read much more at YouTube.

Gospel Choir

Animated Gospel Choir.

Description of The Animation: Five Gospel choir members singing, yellow and red choir robes

Did You Know? Gospel music is a music genre in Christian music. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of gospel music varies according to culture and social context. Gospel music is composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, and as an entertainment product for the marketplace. Gospel music usually has dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) with Christian lyrics. Gospel music can be traced to the early 17th century, with roots in the black oral tradition. Read more . . . 

The Howard Gospel Choir.

Singing Choir

Description of Animation: Choir singing, musical notes, two women, two men, church window

Did You Know? Martin Luther started the Protestant movement in Germany. In the Lutheran church the chorale was the most important part of the musical worship. Luther himself composed many chorale tunes. These are like hymns. The great Johann Sebastian Bach based much of his organ music on the chorale (these pieces are called Chorale Preludes). The choir often sang a motet. Sometimes these choir pieces became very long and turned into cantatas. The words were not from the liturgy but made up by poets or taken from the Bible. Bach wrote about 200 cantatas for the church. He also wrote two great passions which tell the story of Jesus dying on the cross. Other composers who have contributed to Protestant church music in Europe include Heinrich Schütz, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Pachelbel, and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

ABC Youth Choir singing "Jesus, You're Beautiful"

 live at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, MN; June 1, 2001.