Whois & Analysis for essentialworship.com

Essential Records is a contemporary Christian record label based in Franklin, Tennessee.

It is a division of a major label, Sony Music Entertainment.

Contemporary worship music (CWM), also known as praise and worship music, is a loosely defined genre of Christian music used in contemporary worship.

It has developed over the past sixty years and is stylistically similar to pop music.

The songs are frequently referred to as "praise songs" or "worship songs" and are typically led by a "worship band" or "praise team", with either a guitarist or pianist leading.

It is becoming a common genre of music sung in Western churches, particularly in Pentecostal churches.

Many non-charismatic Protestant churches use this type of music.

Also, Roman Catholic churches are using this type of music in some parishes.

Some mix it in with more traditional music; others have certain masses with just contemporary worship music along with traditional masses; others only use contemporary; many others steer clear of contemporary worship and stick with traditional.

A chord, in music, is any harmonic set of pitches consisting of two or more (usually three) notes (also called "pitches") that are heard as if sounding simultaneously.

In everyday use by musical ensembles such as bands and orchestras, the three or more notes of a chord are often sounded together.

However, the notes of a chord do not have to be played together at the same time: arpeggios and broken chords (these involve the notes of the chord played one after the other, rather than at the same time) may, for many practical and theoretical purposes, also constitute chords.

Chords and sequences of chords are frequently used in modern West African and Oceanic music, Western classical music, and Western popular music; yet, they are absent from the music of many other parts of the world.

In tonal Western classical music (music with a tonic key or "home key"), the most frequently encountered chords are triads, so called because they consist of three distinct notes: the root note, and Intervals of a third and a fifth above the root note.

Further notes may be added to give tetrads such as seventh chords, the most commonly encountered example being the dominant seventh chord, consisting of the root note, the major third, the perfect fifth, and the minor seventh above the root.

Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.

The retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar, electric violin, electric organ and synthesizer.