The Genevan Psalter
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Description: Features MIDI files and original English versions in corresponding meters; with bibliography, brief introduction, and links.
The Genevan Psalter - Le Psautier genevois - Der Genfer Psalter - Het Geneefse Psalmboek - genfi zsoltar - Salterio de Ginebra The biblical Psalms were meant to be sung. At the time of the Reformation in central Europe Christians sought to recover a place for the laity in the liturgy of the church. The best way to do this, they believed, was to render the biblical Psalter in the language of the people set to singable tunes. These webpages are devoted to one of the greatest of the sixteenth-century psalters, compiled over several decades, completed in 1562 and used in the city of Geneva as the principal liturgical book among the Reformed Christians there. The Genevan Psalter was the product of a collaborative effort among several people, most notably Louis Bourgeois, Claude Goudimel, Théodore de Bèze and the French court poet Clément Marot. Marot and Bèze's original French versifications of the Psalms have stood the test of time in the francophone world. The Psalms would eventually be translated into German, Dutch, Hungarian, Czech, Italian and, much later, Afrikaans, Indonesian and English.
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| Date | Creation date: 2005/12/08 Expiry date: 2014/12/08 |