negro spiritual

2 definitions found

negro spiritual - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Negro spiritual
      n 1: a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the
           southern United States [syn: spiritual, Negro spiritual
           ]

negro spiritual - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "Negro spiritual":
     anthem, cantata, canticle, chorale, church music, doxology, gospel,
     gospel music, hymn, hymn-tune, hymnody, hymnology, introit, mass,
     motet, offertory, offertory sentence, oratorio, paean, passion,
     prosodion, psalm, psalmody, recessional, requiem, requiem mass,
     sacred music, spiritual, white spiritual