gospel song

collocation in English

meaningsofgospelandsong

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gospel
noun
uk
/ˈɡɒs.pəl/us
/ˈɡɑː.spəl/
any of the four books of the Bible that contain details of the life of ...
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song
noun
uk
/sɒŋ/us
/sɑːŋ/
a usually short piece of music with words that ...
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(Definition ofgospelandsongfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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His father is a pastor and thus was appointed choir director, but when he rocked up agospelsong, his father was unimpressed.
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She wrote her firstgospelsongat the age of 14 and has been performing since the age of eight.
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As recording continued, a number of guitar overdubs were added, including an auto-pan effect and a chiming arpeggio to modernise the old-stylegospelsong.
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It is a modern adaptation of an oldergospelsongof the same title.
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Her repertoire is made up of either blues or gospel songs.
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She helped to develop a new form of teacher, thegospelsong-play, in order to capture the richness and variety of life through music, theater, and dance.
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This was the old 1870 edition with a supplement of newer gospel songs, but none of the reharmonizations of old songs.
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The album is a collection of traditional folk and gospel songs.
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It features acoustic arrangements of classic gospel songs.
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She can handle hard-driving, truck-driving tunes, gospel songs, and tender ballads with equal aplomb here.
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In addition, the label also gave her the advantage of being able to incorporate more gospel songs into her regular country studio albums.
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At an early age, she performed gospel songs for local churches.
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Their arrangements of old gospel songs have been very popular.
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Lyrically, most progressive southern gospel songs are patterned after traditional southern gospel in that they maintain a clear evangelistic and/or testimonial slant.
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Lyrically, progressive southern gospel songs are patterned after traditional southern gospel in that they maintain a clear evangelistic and/or testimonial slant.
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A bonus disc was included with the special edition of the album, containing five gospel songs.
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Today, with historical distance, there is a greater acceptance of such gospel songs into official denominational hymnals.
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Heady wrote the lyrics for over 100 gospel songs through the years.
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Melodically, gospel songs from this era were more diatonic and conjunct.
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Oddly, the album ends with two gospel songs with remarkably similar names, which some critics decried as an overly precious attempt at enforced quirkiness.
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