(10) Important studies of The Psalmist and The Baptist
Psalmody include Richard Wayne Rose, "The Psalmist: A Significant Hymnal for Baptists in America during the Nineteenth Century" (D.M.A.
I wish to present three examples of biblical
Psalmody which I believe exhibit significant "variations on a theme."
The third and final volume of the American
Psalmody series takes its title from the most famous psalm: The Lord Is My Shepherd.
Henry Formby, The Catholic Christian's Guide to the Right Use of Christian
Psalmody and of the Psalter (London: Thomas Richardson and Son, 1846), 11.
That provided a new model of sung vernacular
psalmody. Lucien Deiss' Biblical Hymns and Psalms popularized compositions in which a refrain was assigned to the congregation with verses sung by cantor or schola.
One writer has been able to hear echoes of Jewish
psalmody in his music.
The Sovereign handed Zakaria Mohamed Ali Trabelssi (Lebanon) the international Mohammed VI award for
psalmody of the holy Quran, with memorization of five "ahzab".
Other topics include sex and transmission of sin in patristic exegesis of Psalms 50:5, Origen's use of the Psalms in the treatise On First Principles, Augustine on
psalmody, translating and interpreting the psalter in Christian Andalusia, and Elder Aimilianos on the psalter and the revival of melodious
psalmody at Simonopetra.
Periodically we see the brothers gather in the chapel to sit in rows facing one another and pray the antiphonal
psalmody that makes up the bulk of the liturgical offices.
Although the presentation on singing the psalm gives generous attention to Catholic settings and responsorial
psalmody, other topics pay slight attention to Catholic translations or Catholic liturgical and spiritual contexts for appreciation of the psalm.
In Frankfurt, Strasbourg, Zurich, or Wesel, there is evidence of metrical
psalmody and other singing, some of it drawing upon Lutheran hymnody.
By some time in the 760s, a Roman singer can be traced teaching the 'music of
psalmody' to his Frankish counterparts at the cathedral of Rouen.
"I larnt
psalmody to singin' school, and havin' naturally a good voice, can do base to the nines, and sing complete.