Anglican church music is music that is performed in Anglican church services. The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ... A church building (or simply church) is a building used in Christian worship. ...

Almost all of it is written for choir with or without organ accompaniment. The choir typically uses 'SATB' voices (Soprano or Treble, Alto or Counter-tenor, Tenor and Bass), though in many works some or all of these voices are divided into two for part or all of the piece; in this case the two halves of the choir (one one each side of the aisle) are traditionally named Decani (or 1, for the higher voice) and Cantoris (or 2, for the lower voice). There may also be soloists, usually only for part of the piece. There are also some works for fewer voices, such as those written for solely men's voices or boys'/women's voices. A choir or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. ... Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Modern style pipe organ at the concert hall of Aletheia University in Matou, Taiwan The organ is a keyboard instrument with one or more manuals, and usually a pedalboard. ... Look up Soprano in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Treble is a term applied in music to the high or acute part of the musical system, as opposed to the bass, the lower or grave part. ... Alto (high or tall in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and stop in Portuguese) may refer to: a singing voice below Soprano : see Alto (voice); a high-register musical instrument, such as the alto viola, alto saxophone (both often shortened to alt), alto horn or other; Alto, Michigan; Alto (youthculture) a youthculture... A Countertenor is an adult male singer who uses the falsetto part of his voice more than usual to sing a higher range than the typical adult male voice. ... In music, a tenor is a male singer with a high voice (although not as high as the modern countertenor). ... A basso (or bass) is a male singer who sings in the lowest vocal range of the human voice. ... Christ Carrying the Cross. ... The side of a church choir occupied by the Cantor. ...

Many more recent works were written for, or dedicated to, one of the many famous cathedral or collegiate choirs of England. A cathedral is a Christian church building, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Anglican, Catholic and some Lutheran churches, which serves as the central church of a diocese, and thus as a bishops seat. ...

The chief musical forms are:

• Preces and responses — sung antiphonally by the priest (or a lay cantor) and choir
• Psalms — sung to Anglican chant by the choir or congregation
• Service settings — choral settings of the ordinary of the Eucharist, liturgical canticles and hymns
• Anthems or motets.

In all but the smallest churches the congregation was until recently confined to the singing of hymns. Over the past half century or so efforts have been made to increase the role of the congregation and also to introduce more "popular" musical styles. This article is about the musical term. ... The word Cantor can mean more than one thing: Cantor is another name for a Hazzan, a member of the Jewish clergy Cantor is the title of a member of a student society who is the main singer at a cantus Famous people named Cantor include: Eddie Cantor, singer & entertainer... Psalms (Tehilim תהילים, in Hebrew) is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. ... Anglican chant is a method of singing prose translations of the Psalms used in the Anglican church. ... A congregation is the group of members who make up a local Christian church or Jewish synagogue (or those who are present at a service thereat), as opposed to the building itself. ... In Anglican church music, a Service is a musical setting of certain parts of the liturgy, generally for choir with or without organ accompaniment. ... This article discusses the Mass as a standard form of classical music composition. ... A canticle is a hymn (strictly excluding the Psalms) taken from the Bible. ... See also hymn - a program to decrypt iTunes music files. ... An anthem is a choral composition to an English religious text sung in church services. ... In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions. ... A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a god or other religiously significant figure. ...

Anglican churches also frequently draw upon the musical traditions of other Christian denominations. This is particularly the case in music for the Mass, much of which is taken from the work of Roman Catholic composers. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...

See also

• List of Anglican church composers
• Morning Prayer
• Evensong
• English Hymnal
• Nine Lessons and Carols
• West gallery music
• Fuging tune
• Anthem
• Chapel Royal
• Royal School of Church Music