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These
two types of music, referred to in the video, are just a small sample of
the different styles of devotional music that have evolved in Christian
worship over the last two centuries. These include everything from simple
masses and chants such as those of the Taizé and Iona communities
to great formal masses by Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and, more recently, Vaughan
Williams, Benjamin Britten, Duke Ellington's sacred music - not to forget
the work of African, South American and other composers. In fact just about
every music genre is represented in Christian music making somewhere in
the world.
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Write
your own piece of music to accompany worship. Decide what aspect of worship
you want it to reflect and chose a style, key and tempo that suit. You
could, for example, either set it to the existing words of a poem or hymn,
use it as background to a reading from a religious text or to create a
particular atmosphere. The result should be used in a collective worship.
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