song - a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs"

national anthem - a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation

dithyramb - (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus)

religious song - religious music for singing

doxology - a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God

choral, chorale - a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune

canticle - a hymn derived from the Bible

Dies Irae - the first words of a medieval Latin hymn describing the Last Judgment (literally `day of wrath')

hymeneal - a wedding hymn

Internationale - a revolutionary socialist anthem

pean, paean - (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)

recessional - a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw

Te Deum - an ancient liturgical hymn