La música cristiana es de origen judío: la liturgia musical de la sinagoga, en particular el canto psalmódico de los judíos como unidad poética musical, fue un legado preciado transmitido del Israel antiguo al cristianismo primitivo, como forma de manifestar tanto a nivel personal como comunitario las creencias religiosas y la fe en Dios.
O beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grainFor purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain
America! America! God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life
America! America! God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
From the mountains, to the prairies
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, my home sweet home
Oh land where our fathers died
Land of the pilgrim's pride
From every mountainside
Let freedom, let freedom ring!
America, America, my home sweet home
My home