Congregational singing

Congregational singing is the practice of the congregation participating in the music of a church, either in the form of hymns or a metrical Psalms or a free form Psalm or in the form of the office of the liturgy (for example Gregorian chants).

[1] It is contrasted with music being sung exclusively by a choir or cantor(s).

Congregational singing was largely the invention of the Protestant Reformation.

[2] The reformers in Strasbourg, in particular, reduced the church service largely to a sermon bookended by congregational singing and prayers.

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