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An example of a 16th-century metrical psalter. A metrical psalter is a kind of Bible translation: a book containing a verse translation of all or part of the Book of Psalms in vernacular poetry, meant to be sung as hymns in a church. Some metrical psalters include melodies or harmonisations.
The Souterliedekens (literal: Psalter-songs) is a Dutch metrical psalter, published in 1540 in Antwerp, and which remained very popular throughout the century. The metrical rhyming psalms were, probably, arranged by a Utrecht nobleman: Willem van Zuylen van Nijevelt (d. 1543). For the melodies he used folksongs from the Low Countries (though ...
A psalter is a volume ... and they include some of the most spectacular surviving examples of medieval book art. ... The Psalms in it are metrical translations into ...
The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, commonly called the Bay Psalm Book, is a metrical psalter first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Colony of Massachusetts Bay. It was the first book printed in British North America. [1] [2] The psalms in it are metrical translations into English.
This is particularly true with literary versions such as the Sidney Psalter, which as aesthetic interpretations may arguably cause the focus on form and courtly style to obscure the true message – or revisers of "The Whole Booke of Psalmes" thought. The examples below highlight some differences in meaning implied by different translations.
It is a metrical psalm commonly attributed to the English Puritan Francis Rous and based on the text of Psalm 23 in the Bible. The hymn first appeared in the Scots Metrical Psalter in 1650 traced to a parish in Aberdeenshire. [1] It is commonly sung to the tune Crimond, which is generally credited to Jessie Seymour Irvine. [2]
In this dedication he expresses a hope of "travayling further", and "performing the residue" of the Psalter; but his total contribution to the old version consists of only forty psalms. Sternhold is remembered as the originator of the first metrical version of the Psalms which obtained general currency alike in England and Scotland.
Psalm 118 in the 1564 Scottish Metrical Psalter. The Scottish Psalter of 1564 was based on the first Anglo-Genevan Psalter which had been used by John Knox's congregation. The Scottish Psalter contained most of the tunes of the Anglo-Genevan Psalter and it was completed on the same principles to contain all 150 psalms.