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No, Hymns are sacred songs set to music while poems are not set to music nor are they necessarily sacred.
The poem set to music is called oratorio. A story set to music is called cantata.
No, sacred music is not always liturgical music, although it often is.
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World Sacred Music Festival was created in 1994.
Sacred music is played in churches and meditation rooms. This is music that is to be revered and not taken for granted. Hymns are sacred music.
Chopin wrote secular music. All of it is for or at least involves his instrument, the piano. He wrote no sacred music at all.
No, not really. About the most that music can do is to suggest a scene or a series of scenes from a story, and words are usually needed to set the scene for the music. This kind of music is called program music and the scenes described as printed in program notes that go along with the music.
The web address of the Sacred Heart Music Center is: http://www.sacredheartmusic.org
The Council of Trent specified that music in churches should for sacred purposes. The distinctions between secular, worldly music and sacred music, and their functions were made clear. What goes on in Church should be the worship of God, be it preaching, singing, liturgical dancing music or ritual.
The phone number of the Sacred Heart Music Center is: 218-723-1895.