Its universal message has been a significant factor in its crossover into secular music.

With the advent of recorded music and radio, " Amazing Grace " began to cross over from primarily a gospel standard to secular audiences.

Following the appropriation of the hymn in secular music, " Amazing Grace " became such an icon in American culture that it has been used for a variety of secular purposes and marketing campaigns, placing it in danger of becoming a cliché.

Gregorian chant is an example of a cappella singing, as is the majority of secular vocal music from the Renaissance.

Additionally, the majority of commercial didgeridoo recordings available are distributed by multinational recording companies and feature non-Aboriginals playing a New Age style of music with liner notes promoting the instrument's spirituality which misleads consumers about the didgeridoo's secular role in traditional Aboriginal culture.

The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the Medieval to the late Baroque eras and was probably the most important instrument for secular music in the Renaissance.

Mediaeval music was both sacred and secular.

The secular Ballata, which became very popular in Trecento Italy, had its origins, for instance, in mediaeval instrumental dance music.

From the Renaissance era both secular and sacred music survives in quantity, and both vocal and instrumental.

Principal liturgical forms which endured throughout the entire Renaissance period were masses and motets, with some other developments towards the end, especially as composers of sacred music began to adopt secular forms ( such as the madrigal ) for their own designs.

During the period, secular music had an increasing distribution, with a wide variety of forms, but one must be cautious about assuming an explosion in variety: since printing made music more widely available, much more has survived from this era than from the preceding Medieval era, and probably a rich store of popular music of the late Middle Ages is irretrievably lost.

In secular music, especially in the madrigal, there was a trend towards complexity and even extreme chromaticism ( as exemplified in madrigals of Luzzaschi, Marenzio, and Gesualdo ).

Beginning in Florence, there was an attempt to revive the dramatic and musical forms of Ancient Greece, through the means of monody, a form of declaimed music over a simple accompaniment ; a more extreme contrast with the preceding polyphonic style would be hard to find ; this was also, at least at the outset, a secular trend.

REED examines the historical manuscripts that provide external evidence of drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until 1642, when the Puritans closed the London theatres.

Singing without accompaniment is called a cappella singing ( although the American Choral Directors Association discourages this usage in favor of " unaccompanied ," since a cappella denotes singing " as in the chapel " and much unaccompanied music today is secular ).

Except for Viadana's collection, which contained purely instrumental and secular music, these were all collections of sacred vocal works, some with instrumental accompaniment.

He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard ( the so-called Virginalist school ) and consort music.

Finally, despite a general aversion to the madrigal, he succeeded in cultivating secular vocal music in an impressive variety of forms in his three sets of 1588, 1589 and 1611.

Josquin wrote both sacred and secular music, and in all of the significant vocal forms of the age, including masses, motets, chansons and frottole.

* Classical music, a genre of art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music from the 10th century onward.

In the process, many fragments of classical learning are preserved which otherwise would have been hopelessly lost ; " in fact, in the majority of his works, including the Origines, he contributes little more than the mortar which connects excerpts from other authors, as if he was aware of his deficiencies and had more confidence in the stilus maiorum than his own " his translator Katherine Nell MacFarlane remarks ; on the other hand, some of these fragments were lost in the first place because Isidore ’ s work was so highly regarded — Braulio called it quecunque fere sciri debentur, " practically everything that it is necessary to know "— that it superseded the use of many individual works of the classics themselves, which were not recopied and have therefore been lost: " all secular knowledge that was of use to the Christian scholar had been winnowed out and contained in one handy volume ; the scholar need search no further ".

" Kazin concludes, " For the young moralists of the 1960s — missionaries of a secular persuasion — only a self-conscious rebellion from below could topple the corrupted liberal order.

p. 198 ) Hirsch held that Judaism demands an application of Torah thought to the entire realm of human experience — including the secular disciplines.

With the signature of the USA in 2009, the proposed UN declaration on LGBT rights has now been signed by every European secular state and all western nations, as well as other countries — 67 members of the UN in total.

Under the rule of this prelate, the townspeople rebelled, headed by the local council, beginning a secular tradition of confrontation of the people of the city — who fought for self-government — with the local bishop, the secular and jurisdictional lord of the city and of its fief, the semi-independent Terra de Santiago (' Land of Saint James ').

Fundamental to the concept of secular humanism is the strongly held viewpoint that ideology — be it religious or political — must be thoroughly examined by each individual and not simply accepted or rejected on faith.

Some religious groups argue that secular humanism — and, by association, secularism — have a religion-like legal status despite the separation of church and state, that secularism in government and in the schools constitutes state favoritism towards a particular religion ( namely, the denial of theism ), and a double standard is used in granting protections to these groups.

Saddam feared that radical Islamic ideas — hostile to his secular rule — were rapidly spreading inside his country among the majority Shi ' ite population.

" It is this vision that scholars have called Paine's " secular millennialism " and it appears in all of his works — he ends the Rights of Man, for example, with the statement: " From what we now see, nothing of reform in the political world ought to be held improbable.

Many secular Jews attend synagogue on Yom Kippur — for many secular Jews the High Holy Days are the only recurring times of the year in which they attend synagogue — causing synagogue attendance to soar.

His leftism was always patriotic rather than internationalist — he sought a secular, rational form of French life.

Regarding his belief system, he doesn't " want to provide a category for people to apply to " because he " would not want convictions reduced to a word " and states, " I have never said, although readers have freely informed me I am an atheist, an agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist — which I am ".

After the signing of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, Patel was elected Congress president for its 1931 session in Karachi — here the Congress ratified the pact, committed itself to the defence of fundamental rights and human freedoms, and a vision of a secular nation, minimum wage and the abolition of untouchability and serfdom.

Yeshiva University ’ s undergraduate schools — Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, and Syms School of Business " offer a unique dual curriculum inspired by Modern-Centrist-Orthodox Judaism's hashkafa ( philosophy ) of Torah Umadda (" Torah and secular knowledge ") combining the finest, contemporary academic education with the timeless teachings of Torah .”

The term " precession " typically refers only to this largest secular motion ; other changes in the alignment of Earth's axis — nutation and polar motion — are much smaller in magnitude.

His attitude toward madrigals was somewhat enigmatic: whereas in the preface to his collection of Canticum canticorum ( Song of Songs ) motets ( 1584 ) he renounced the setting of profane texts, only two years later he was back in print with Book II of his secular madrigals ( some of these being among the finest compositions in the medium ).

In the preface to his collection of German songs, Lassus lists his secular works: Italian madrigals and French chansons, German and Dutch songs.

In addition to his output of sacred music as the director of St. Mark's, he wrote numerous madrigals, a secular form ; he is considered a Flemish madrigal composer of the first rank.

While Wert wrote both sacred and secular music, as well as a handful of instrumental fantasias, his madrigals were by far the most famous portion of his output during his lifetime.

Rore wrote 107 madrigals that are securely attributed to him ; 16 secular Latin compositions, similar in form to madrigals ; at least seven chansons ; 53 motets, of which 51 survive ; a Passion according to Saint John ; five settings of the mass ; some Magnificats ; and a handful of other works.

The earliest madrigals were probably those by Bernardo Pisano, in his 1520 Musica di messer Bernardo Pisano sopra le canzone del Petrarcha, which was also the first secular music collection ever printed containing only the works of a single composer.

Monteverdi's Book Eight, of the same year, contains some of the most famous madrigals of the entire epoch, including the enormous Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, a dramatic composition much like a secular oratorio.

Madrigals influenced secular music in many other parts of Europe, and in some areas composers wrote actual madrigals, either in Italian or in their own languages.

As a result of the printing and singing of madrigals, particularly English ones, the madrigal became the best-known form of Renaissance secular music in England in the 19th century, even before the rediscovery of works by composers such as Palestrina.

* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – famous mostly for his sacred music, he also wrote at least 140 secular madrigals.

His madrigals, on the other hand, are a cappella, in the late Renaissance style, so Agazzari simultaneously showed extreme progressive tendencies as well as some more conservative ones: unusually, his progressive music was sacred, and his conservative was secular, a situation almost unique among composers of the early Baroque.

His works were published between 1549 and 1567, and include 41 motets, mostly for five and six voices, and 13 secular works, mostly madrigals, for four and five voices.

He wrote music both secular ( French virelais, Italian ballate and madrigals ) and sacred ( motets, mass movements, some of them isorhythmic ).

He published over 1100 secular madrigals, in 34 books, but not all of them survived.

He produces mostly madrigals but also canzonette and villanelle ( related secular a cappella forms very much like madrigals, but usually a bit lighter in character ).

While William Byrd, probably the most famous English composer of the time, experimented with the madrigal form, he never actually called his works madrigals, and shortly after writing some secular songs in madrigalian style returned to writing mostly sacred music.

Among Cavalieri's secular compositions were madrigals, monodies, and pieces he wrote for intermedi ; his sacred compositions included a setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and the Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo.

Around this time he began to compose, especially madrigals ; this was one of the few periods in his life during which he wrote secular music.

Anerio was a conservative composer, who largely used the style of Palestrina as a starting point, at least after his youthful period of writing secular works, such as madrigals and canzonettas, was done.

Cifra was a prolific composer, with 45 separate publications to his credit: they included psalms, motets, litanies, Scherzi sacri, masses, polychoral motets, and sacred songs, as well as secular music including madrigals in both the Renaissance a cappella and Baroque concertato forms.