A canticle is a hymn (strictly excluding the Psalms) taken from the Bible. The term is often expanded to included ancient non-Biblical hymns such as the Te Deum and certain psalms used liturgically. Its meaning can be further expanded to include: A hymn is a song specifically written as a song of praise, adoration or prayer, typically addressed to a god. ... Psalms (Tehilim תהילים, in Hebrew) is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. ... The Bible (sometimes The Holy Bible, The Book, Good Book, Word of God, The Word, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, is the classical name for the Hebrew Bible of Judaism or the combination of the Old Testament and New Testament of Christianity (The Bible actually refers to... Te Deum is an early Christian hymn of praise. ... From the Greek word λειτουργια, which can be transliterated as leitourgia, meaning the work of the people, a liturgy comprises a prescribed religious ceremony, according to the traditions of a particular religion; it may refer to, or include, an elaborate formal ritual (such as the Catholic Mass), a daily activity such...

• A song, especially a hymn (as in "Canticle of Canticles", another way to refer to the biblical book Song of Solomon.)
• A canto or division of a poem

Examples of Biblical canticles: Song of Solomon is also the title of a novel by Toni Morrison. ... A canto is a significant section of a long poem or the highest part in a piece of choral music. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ...

• Benedicite or Song of the Three Holy Children (Daniel III, 57–88 in the Apocrypha)
• Benedictus or Canticle of Zechariah (Luke I, 68–79)
• Magnificat or Song of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Luke I 46-55)
• Nunc dimittis

From the Latin "canticulum", a diminutive of "canticum", song. The Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Holy Children, omitted from Protestant Bibles as an apocryphal addition, is a lengthy passage Daniel 3, that would come between verses 23 and 24 in Protestant Bibles. ... This article is about the Biblical book. ... Apocrypha is a Greek word (απόκρυφα, neuter plural of απόκρυφος), from αποκρυπτειν, to hide away. ... The Benedictus, given in Luke 1:68-79, is one of the three great canticles in the opening chapters of this Gospel, the other two being the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis. ... The Gospel of Luke is the third of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament, which tell the story of Jesus life, death, and resurrection. ... Sandro Boticelli. ... The Gospel of Luke is the third of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament, which tell the story of Jesus life, death, and resurrection. ... Nunc Dimittis is the Latin name of the passage in the second chapter of Luke that is commonly called the Canticle of Simeon. ...

External links

• Hymns and Cancticles from the Hebrew Scriptures
• Hymns and Canticles from the Prophet Isaiah Part 1
• Hymns and Canticles from the Prophet Isaiah Part 2