This is our loss, for to every genre he brings the qualities of innovation, of outlandish virtuosity offset by slower music of profound beauty. In today’s exploration of sacred and secular, American ...

Green invoked an undeniable spirituality into the most sensual music, something that became ... helped him strike a balance between the sacred and the secular. The album’s first single ...

Secular music flourished, too, in the hands of the French trouvères and troubadours, until the period culminated with the sacred and secular compositions of one of the first true genius of Western ...