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  2. Reciting tone - Wikipedia

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    The intonation defines the notes for the first two or three syllables, with subsequent words sung on the reciting tone. Because of the parallel structure typical of the Psalms, psalm verses divide into two roughly equal parts; the end of the first part is indicated by the mediant, a slight

  3. Shape note - Wikipedia

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    American forerunners to shape notes include the 9th edition of the Bay Psalm Book (Boston), and An Introduction to the Singing of Psalm Tunes in a Plaine & Easy Method by Reverend John Tufts. The 9th edition of the Bay Psalm Book was printed with the initials of four-note syllables (fa, sol, la, me) underneath the staff.

  4. Falsobordone - Wikipedia

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    A falsobordone setting of Dixit dominus, originally from Barcelona, Bibl. cent. 454 (f. 177v). Adapted from Trumble, Falsobordone: An Historical Survey, 55.After a single chord change intonation, the falsobordone harmonizes the reciting tone of the second psalm tone, complete with mediant, followed by an elaborate medial cadence.

  5. Anglican chant - Wikipedia

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    Particularly in long psalms, changes of chant may be used to signal thematic shifts in the words. Psalm 119, which is the longest in the psalter, is generally sung with a change of chant after every 8 of its 176 verses, corresponding to the 22 stanzas of the original Hebrew text. However, it is never sung all at once, but spread over successive ...

  6. Tonary - Wikipedia

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    The intonation of the "plagi protus" (on folio 105 verso) is rather exposing the melos used in Old Roman chant of this tone (ranging between C and G), but the sequentiary (folio 114 recto) is opened by an "improvised" alleluia of the same tone simply made by a similar intonation which is also using the plagal fourth A-D under the final note D ...

  7. Gelineau psalmody - Wikipedia

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    Gelineau psalmody is a method of singing the Psalms that was developed in France by Catholic Jesuit priest Joseph Gelineau around 1953, with English translations appearing some ten years later. [1] Its chief distinctives are:

  8. Metrical psalter - Wikipedia

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    A revised Psalter in more modern idiom was published in 2004 under the title The Psalms for Singing. The Melbourne Congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia produced The Complete Book of Psalms for Singing with Study Notes in 1991. Music in staff format is provided in a variety of meters, mostly to established tunes.

  9. Ambrosian chant - Wikipedia

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    The Psalms are sung at Matins and Vespers in a rotating schedule so that all 150 Psalms are chanted every two weeks. The Psalms are each sung to a psalm tone, with a simple antiphon between each verse. The system of psalm tones in Ambrosian chant differs in several respects from the Gregorian system of psalm tones.