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	metricalpsalms
		Metrical psalms are psalms written in a metered, poetic format so they can be set to familiar hymn tunes.
		The first metrical psalter in English, that of Sternhold, was published prior to his death in 1549.
		Since metrical psalms are set to hymn tunes, I have found these are much more accessible and acceptable to the congregations I have served.
	www.homestead.com /metricalpsalms (1416 words)

	Metrical psalter
		A metrical psalter is a kind of Bible translation: a paraphrase of all or part of the Book of Psalms in vernacular poetry, meant to be sung as hymns in a church.
		The composition of metrical psalters was a large enterprise of the Protestant Reformation, especially in its Calvinist manifestation.
		One of the greatest metrical psalters produced during this period was made for the Protestant churches of France and Geneva, by the poet Clément Marot and the theologian Theodore Beza.
	www.keywordmage.net /me/metrical-psalter.html (1439 words)

	Untitled Document
		Psaltarpsalmerna i meterklass i The Scottish Metrical Psalter är de mest Bibeltrogna berimmade psaltarpsalmer på engelska och The Scottish Metrical Psalter används i väldigt många konservativa engelskspråkiga reformerta kyrkor eftersom ingen senare revidering eller omdiktning har lyckats förbli så nära psalmtexterna.
		The Scottish Psalter innehåller inga sånger eller hymner utan endast psaltarpsalmer.
		The Psalms of David in Metre - Scottish Metrical Version finns att köpa hos Bokus - sök på 'psalms in metre' och 'metrical psalms', eller sök på "Scottish Psalmody" för utgåvan met noter.
	www.psalmer.nl /scottishpsalter.htm (505 words)

	Hymnology: Metrical Psalmody
		In the 16th century, Protestant churches encouraged congregational psalm singing by adopting metrical versions in the vernacular.
		An important early translation was Clèment Marot's, the basis of the Calvinist psalter.
		In England, after the Catholic Mary Tudor's reign (1553-8), metrical psalms became popular, the standard psalter being that of Sternhold and Hopkins.
	www.smithcreekmusic.com /Hymnology/Metrical.Psalmody/metrical.psalmody.html (855 words)

	Hymnals & Psalters
		Originally designed to be a supplement to the church's Psalter, it contains a selection of metrical Psalms set largely to music in a gospel-hymn style.
		Psalter Hymnal - Published in 1987 by CRC Publications in association with the Christian Reformed Church.
		From Calvin's time on, the challenge in producing a metrical Psalter has always been to paraphrase the psalm in such a way that the poetry is of high quality poetry that is easily understood.
	www.arpsynod.org /hymnpsalm.html (1298 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		One of the greatest metrical psalters produced during the Reformation, the Huguenot Psalter, was authored for the Protestant churches of France and Geneva (called the Huguenots).
		A metrical psalter was also produced for the Calvinist Reformed Church of the Netherlands by Petrus Datheen in 1566.
		The Dutch psalter was revised on orders of the Dutch legislature in 1773, in a revision which also added non-paraphrase hymns to the collection.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Metrical_psalter (1937 words)

	Scottish Metrical Psalter
		This Psalter is known as the Anglo-Genevan Psalter.
		Our present Psalter (SMV, 1650) arose out of the conviction that although the Psalter of 1564 was a faithful translation of the original, its variety of metre was too difficult for the common people.
		This is the case with all the Reformation Psalters.
	www.cprf.co.uk /articles/scottishmetricalpsalter.htm (992 words)

	Psalmody and a FREE Copy the Scottish Metrical Psalter (1650) (Summaries by Reg Barrow)
		The text of the Scottish Metrical Psalms was authorized by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1650.
		This Psalter passed through the intense scrutiny of -- and was authorized for public use by -- both the Westminster Assembly and the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (at the height of her purity) in the mid seventeenth century.
		Moreover, this Psalter was produced to further national and international covenanted Reformation -- and to fulfill the intent of the Solemn League and Covenant for biblically regulated worship and biblical uniformity.
	www.swrb.com /newslett/FREEBOOK/ScotPsal.htm (3115 words)

	Reformed Worship \| Straight from Scripture
		Churches with Reformed and Presbyterian roots traditionally are part of the second group, the tradition known as "metrical psalmody." We have sung the psalms almost exclusively in metered, paraphrased stanzas, and we have done so for obvious reasons.
		Worse yet, a rigid metrical pattern may require that the psalms be rendered in an extremely awkward form.
		Fortunately, contemporary versifiers of metrical psalmody have felt free to depart from even such conventional patterns as rhyme and generally have been more successful in communicating a psalm's original meaning in comprehensible form.
	www.reformedworship.org /magazine/article.cfm?article_id=84 (1551 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		In the early Middle Ages Psalters were amongst the most popular types of manuscripts, rivaled only by the Gospel Books.
		Medieval Psalters often included a calendar, a litany of saints, canticles from the Old and New Testaments, as well as other devotional texts.
		The psalter is also a part of either the Horologion or the breviary, used to say the Liturgy of the Hours in the Eastern and Western Christian worlds respectively.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Psalter (172 words)

	Calvin Institute of Christian Worship - A Reformed Approach to Psalmody
		The Genevan Psalter is the only complete metrical psalter from Reformation days still in regular use in more than one country, even now in the 21st century.
		Metrical psalms were already being sung there, and it was his experience there that got him started on the idea of preparing a complete French psalter.
		The spread of the Psalter from Geneva was at the heart and center of the spread of Calvinism throughout Europe and beyond.
	www.calvin.edu /worship/lit_arts/psalms_hymns/reformed_psalmody.php (5177 words)

	Psalm Singing and Metrical Psalters
		Obsolete Words and Pronunciations First, some notes about the language used in the various metrical Psalters.
		Metrical Psalm Singing Development, Illustrated With Psalm 19.
		This is an exploration of versions of Psalm 19 in metre dating from 1562 up to the present, with tunes contemporary to each version of the Psalm.
	www.cgmusic.com /library/index.htm (314 words)

	WebSearch - Psalter
		The psalter is also a part of either the Horologion or the breviary, used to say...
		PSAlter is a unique and powerful tool for working with PostScript in Microsoft Windows.
		The Psalter script is a variant of the Persian script which was used...
	www.websearch.com /rl/te10_sr-1/Psalter.html (246 words)

	Yale Divinity Library Exhibit: From Psalm Book to Hymnal
		It was not until the turn of the eighteenth century that freely composed hymns were considered acceptable for congregational worship, and it was well after the turn of the nineteenth century before the acceptance of hymnody could be called general.
		The Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter became the "Old Version" in 1696 with the appearance of "A New Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the tunes used in Churches" by two Irishmen, Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady.
		It was the beginning of the end for metrical psalmody in England (though not in Scotland, where metrical psalmody is still employed side by side with hymnody).
	www.library.yale.edu /div/hymnexh.htm (1965 words)

	Metrical psalms: the words (Brooke-Taylor 1994)
		The pages in the psalter section are cut in half, with words on the bottom section and tunes on the top, so that one can easily turn up whichever tune is called for the psalm.
		Excellent it may be as a hymn, but it would really be wrong to describe it as a metrical version of that psalm, or to sing it in lieu of a psalm.
		Metrical psalms and their music were written to be used to worship God.
	www.westgallerymusic.co.uk /articles/BTaylor96.html (3603 words)

	PCA Position Papers - 1993 Report of the "Psalm Singing" Subcommittee
		While this is universally understood to be true of the Old Testament church, it is seldom recognized that the Psalter has served as the primary hymnal of the New Testament church throughout most of its history.
		The first Scottish Psalter, 1564, the Ainsworth Psalter (the metrical Psalm-book which crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower and used by the Pilgrim Fathers), and all the first English Psalter, the Sternhold and Hopkins, or "Old Version," published in 1562, all showed considerable Genevan influence.
		Psalters continued to be developed in the English-speaking world and cumulatively to dominate the church's music.
	www.pcahistory.org /pca/psalmody.html (2307 words)

	The Preface to the Scottish Psalter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		A Puritan Preface to the Scottish Metrical Psalter
		Below is the text (with some modernisation of spelling and punctuation etc.) of a letter to the reader affixed to an edition of the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter printed for the Company of Stationers at London in 1673.
		(3) The Scottish Metrical Psalter is not a mere paraphrase of the Word of God.
	www.cprf.co.uk /quotes/prefacescottishpsalter.htm (941 words)

	Scottish Festival Singers -- Psalms Of The Trinity Psalter (Volume 1)
		The following collection of metrical Psalms (Psalms that have been rhymed, metered, and set to music) is taken from the Trinity Psalter, a work whose ambition it is to revive the practice of congregational Psalm-singing.
		The Reformation of the 16th century revived the congregational singing of the Psalter, which dominated the church-music scene until the middle of the last century (19th century).
		On the American scene the metrical Psalms crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower (the old Ainsworth Psalter), were sung be Sir Frances Drake to the Indians in California (from the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter), and the first book published in North America was the enormously popular Bay Psalm Book (1640), the hymnal of American Puritanism.
	www.oldchristianmusic.com /mproductpages/scottish-festival-singers--psalms-of-the-trinity-psalter.html (737 words)

	A Joyful Noise
		The language of the paraphrase, in keeping with the literary taste of the day, may be so florid or obscure that it is hard to imagine the original coming from the lips of a shepherd boy on the plains of Israel.
		But if, as Watts observed, the metrical Psalms represent our speaking to God, then that language should be our own words, and readers should be free to seek those versions which echo their sentiments in the most familiar terms.
		A second issue to be considered is that most metrical Psalters have not been the product of Bible scholars, or even the best poets, but of clergy, church musicians, and lay people who were writing for their own devotional exercise, or for the spiritual edification of their own small circle of friends and parishioners.
	www.biblecollectors.org /a_j.htm (2451 words)

	A-Z Index to Old English Poetry
		Metrical Charm 8: For a Swarm of Bees
		The Metrical Epilogue to MS 41, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
		The Metrical Preface to Waerferth's Translation of Gregory's Dialogues
	www.georgetown.edu /labyrinth/library/oe/alpha.html (27 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rhymed Bibles
		The oldest English rhymed psalter is a pre-Reformation translation of the Vulgate psalms, generally assigned to the reign of Henry II and still preserved in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
		These and other pre-Reformation rhyming psalters tell a story of popular use of the vernacular Scripture in England which they ignore who say that the singing of psalms in English began with the Reformation.
		George Sandys (1636) published a volume containing a metrical version of other parts of the Bible together with "a Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David, set to new Tunes for Private Devotion, and a Thorow Base for Voice and Instruments"; his work is touching in its simplicity and unction.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13026d.htm (592 words)

	Review of Exclusive Psalmody
		He claims "some of the metrical Psalms are at best rough paraphrases of the Hebrew text." It is the case that in translating from one language to another, word order is sometimes changed and words are added to make for a clearer presentation of the thought.
		He admits that the "Psalter has supplied a chief vehicle for praise from primitive times." Yet from reading his article one could get the impression that this Psalmody is some innovation sweeping through the churches of the Lord.
		We have no reason from the word order to assert that the metrical version is a paraphrase as opposed to the other two versions.
	www.fpcr.org /blue_banner_articles/crampton.htm (4678 words)

	Table of Contents
		The text of the Scottish Metrical Psalms was authorized by the Church of Scotland in 1650.
		The electronic version of this psalter has been provided as a convenience for our readers; the psalter is also available in printed form, as a hardcover book.
		No part of this publication may be transmitted or distributed in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical photocopying, or otherwise) without prior permission of the publisher.
	www.swrb.com /newslett/actualNLs/Psalter0.htm (158 words)

	LM
		The earliest important metrical psalter in English is the "Old Version" or "Sternhold and Hopkins." The first version of nineteen metrical psalms was published about 1547, followed by a complete version that was published in London in 1562.
		The "New Version" was used by English colonists in America before the Revolution and was bound with the first BCP for publication in 1789.
		The BCP allows use of metrical versions of the invitatory psalms and of the canticles after the readings at Morning and Evening Prayer (BCP, p.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /19625_14784_ENG_HTM.htm (260 words)

	PSALTERS, PSALM SINGING ON CASSETTE and BOOKS ON PSALMODY (PSALTERS) Summaries by Reg Barrow
		the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650): Allowed By the Authority of the Kirk of Scotland, and of Several Branches of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
		This is the Psalter (less Brown's notes, which were added later) mandated, approved and used (for public and private worship) by the Westminster Assembly and all those who covenanted to uphold the Biblical Reformation that these Divines proclaimed.
		Anothr big plus with this Psalter is that the Psalms, excepting one, are rendered into common metre (with some alternate versions added) and thus can be sung by even those with almost no knowledge of music.
	www.swrb.com /music/psalm.htm (3814 words)

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