Development Of Western Religious Vocal Music Genres And Sing Style

From ancient to today, the music of the world-wide locations all originate from person's voice, but only develops to the most glorious form on the European earth, which dues to the function of the Christianity. In the history of western sacred music, the vocal sing has been occupied important position. Singing hymn is an importance part in the Christianity church rites.The development of the western religious music genre has experienced a long course, which is form Simple to complication, From religion to customs, For adapting with this change ,either Sing style or Sing ability had also experienced a complex course ,which is from gravity to grace, from low level to high level. There has a certain and inevitable contact in music genres and Vocal music art. This article will take time as order, take the medieval, Renaissance, Baroque as background, Because the religious music was the most glorious in this a few periods. Select several typical genres of sacred music take into generalized.In the Middle Ages, there existed the fixed forms used in songs, such as, Gregorian chant, sequence, trope, organum, descant. In the earlier Middle Ages, the composition skill was still simple, had no complicated and harmony, under the influence of the church esthetics ideas. The sing style was refrain and austere, In the Antque(12-13Century), vocal musical genre include conductus, clausuia, motet. this era witnessed the emergence of basic polyphonic concepts. Although the polyphonic vocal music art have made a bit progress, but based on person' s nature pronounciation , early Christian services contained cantor or responsorial, usually sung by the congregation.In the Renaissance, some sacred musical forms continue to use the previous, and some creation. chorale, anthem, mass. At this era, with the prosperous development of polyphonic vocal music, people' Singing level had an obvious improvement.Since the Baroque period (c. 1600-c. 1750) some new musical forms successively create, such as oratorio, passion, The religious music works of Bach and Handel reflected the vocal music development level at that time. under the influence of opera, The Sing style was more gorgeous and magnificence, the choral scale to extend continuously, the art of solo outshine others, And begin to systematicly research for Singing technique.From the development of the form, We can see the music art culture that conceal in its back, The church vocal music and secular music development together, They...