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This article elucidates the rhetorical framework within which the new culture of popular sacred music flourished in both Protestant and Catholic Reformations, focusing on  modulata recitatio , the ancient manner of ecclesiastical singing reconstructed by the humanists as an embodiment of  musica divina . It discusses how metrical psalmody and oratorios, originating from the  modulata recitatio  and aimed at edifying the laity, paved the way for modern hymnody and church cantatas respectively – the new music which facilitated the promotion of Christian spirituality and virtue by appealing to emotion. Considering the cultural development of popular sacred music the article demonstrates that in combining moral education with Christian devotion the  modulata recitatio  lies at the heart of lay spiritual music shaped by the Reformation.

Music, Rhetoric, and the Edification of the Church in the Reformation: The Humanist Reconstruction of Modulata Recitatio