metrical psalm

The guitar is frequently used, as are metrical psalms.

It is more likely that he was thinking anachronistically of a Protestant metrical psalm tune.

He translated the metrical psalms into Welsh, and the present west window commemorates his work.

This work assumed the knowledge of metrical psalms.

Metrical Psalms are still very popular among many Reformed Churches.

A favourite hymn of Flora's was the Metrical Psalm 46.

The first edition contains 901 hymns, carols and metrical psalms arranged into 14 sections.

Tunes for the metrical psalm versions came from several men, including Louis Bourgeois (c. 1501-c.

All the metrical psalms were in common meter (CM) with 13 having an alternative in another metre.

This is due to the often archaic language that the Metrical Psalms and Paraphrases use.

Closely associated with the proclamation and preaching of the Word was scriptural hymnody, in the form of metrical psalms.

Metrical psalms are still occasionally used in Baptist churches, but hymns are the main musical items in their services.

The church was filled, and when the choir chanted the metrical Psalms so beloved of Calvinists, the place reverberated.

The music sung by gallery choirs often consisted of metrical psalm settings by composers with little formal training, often themselves local teachers or choir members.

Music also incorporated wider European influences although the Reformation caused a move from complex polyphonic church music to the simpler singing of metrical psalms.

Traditionally, Scots worship centred on the singing of metrical psalms and paraphrases, but for generations these have been supplemented with Christian music of all types.

They are Biblical paraphrases lyrical renderings of sections of the Bible that have been set to music, in a similar fashion to Metrical Psalms.

Mason was one of the earliest writers of hymns (instead of metrical psalms) used in congregational worship, influenced in style by George Herbert.

The musical tradition of Free Churches originated in the singing of metrical psalms by the whole congregation, and psalm-singing still plays an important part in their worship.

In some places metrical psalms were also included, and in the 1670s Benjamin Keach introduced some congregational hymn-singing into his services in Hackney.

It is assumed that they were initially sung to any suitable tune that fitted the metre (rhythm), most probably to sixteenth or seventeenth century metrical psalm tunes.

Calvin endorsed only singing of metrical psalm texts, only in unison, only a cappella, with no harmonization and no accompanying instruments of any kind.

They were issued under a patent of King James I ordaining that they should be bound up with every copy of the authorized metrical psalms offered for sale.

The Church of Scotland sets great store by metrical psalms, whilst the Free Church of Scotland sings its psalms unaccompanied by instruments.

To the Church of England hymns other than metrical psalms were of questionable legality until the 1820s, as they were not explicitly sanctioned by the Book of Common Prayer.