Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 01 · The Sound of Congregational Song · Page 13 in print
Metrical Psalms
John Day’s 1562 Whole Booke of Psalmes combined earlier English psalters made by exiles at Geneva with new psalm versions by John Hopkins, Thomas Norton and John Markant.
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Andro Hart
Edinburgh printer of the 1615 Scottish psalter.
Bourgeois
Loys Bourgeois, composer of Genevan psalm tunes.
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Calvin
John Calvin, sponsor of Reformed psalm singing.
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Clement Marot
French court poet who versified the psalms.
Dunfermline
A common psalm tune printed in the 1615 Scottish psalter.
Francis Rous
English Puritan whose psalm version underlies the 1650 Scottish Psalter.
Geneva
Swiss city where the Genevan Psalter was produced.
Iambic Meter
Poetic meter built from unstressed-stressed feet, used in common-metre psalms.
John Day
London printer-publisher John Day. Printer of the complete English metrical psalter.
John Hopkins
John Hopkins, co-versifier of the Sternhold and Hopkins psalter. Co-author of the English metrical psalter.
Psalter
Book of psalms arranged for singing.
Quatrain
Four-line stanza used in common metre.
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Sternhold
Thomas Sternhold (d. 1549), English psalm versifier. Founding author of the English metrical psalter.
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Strasbourg
City where Calvin first met metrical psalm singing.
Theodore Beza
Théodore de Bèze, Reformed theologian who finished the Genevan versification.
Sources
- Psalter Hymnal Handbook (1987), via HymnaryHymnary.org
- Metrical psalterWikipedia
- Genevan PsalterWikipedia
- Genevan psalter, digitized title page (Les Pseaumes mis en rime francoise par Clément Marot et Théodore de Bèze)Bibliothèque de Genève, e-rara
- Metre (hymn)Wikipedia
- Thomas SternholdWikipedia