The Puritan editors of this first attempt at American psalmody cared no more for poetic effect than did their brother versifiers across the waters.
Psalmody had its inception in France, where Clement Marot, court poet to King Francis I, rendered a number of the Psalms into metrical form.
Gradually, however, psalmody began to lose its hold on the Reformed churches, both in Europe and America, and hymnody gained the ascendancy.
Detailed prescriptions as to the order of the services and the psalmodyaccompanied the edict.
A note of ancient psalmody Fills heaven and earth with melody; A sacrifice of grateful praise From altars old, we now upraise, "And God looks pleased from glory down, His smile oh!
He became a master of tone and choral harmony, and did much to reform and elevate congregational psalmody in England.
It was Moore's splendid hymn that gave it vogue in England and Ireland, and sent it across the sea to find itself in the house of its friends with the psalmody of Billings and Swan.
China," his masterpiece, will be long kept track of as a curio, and preserved in replicates of old psalmody to illustrate self-culture in the art of song.
One Aaron Williams, to whom "Mear" has by some been credited, was of Welsh descent, a composer of psalmody and clerk of the Scotch church in London.
In psalmody their emotions mount on wings, and they find ecstacy in solemn sounds.
All this forms a species of psalmody in which there is generally neither melody nor measure.
Several times, lately, I have heard the tender complaining notes of his psalmody upon the streets of the city.
Mine host sat down to the piano, and played some of that fine old psalmody which the country people of Lancashire take such delight in.
Of all these individuals an exact catalogue was kept; the days of their decease [1] were carefully noted, and on their anniversaries a solemn service of Masses and psalmody was yearly performed.
They then ranged themselves in a circle around their conductor, and they played and sang several fine pieces of psalmody upon the heather-scented mountain top.
Several times lately I have heard the tender complaining notes of his psalmody upon the streets of the city.
What a note of horror does his name throw into the sweet Sabbath psalmody of our churches.
Deacon Justin did not confine his musical performances to psalmody and the accompanying of hymns.
They cannot even read the Bible in an impressive and edifying manner, nor is their psalmody much better.
By degrees they elicited from her the story of the psalmodyin the Presbyterian Church at Samoset; and Dr.
It was in the course of the sixteenth century that the psalmody of England, and the other Protestant countries, was brought to the state in which it now remains, and in which it is desirable that it should continue to remain.
In my next (should this receive your attention) I shall send you a few remarks on the psalmody of the new churches of Marylebone and Trinity.
I have lately made a journey to the metropolis for the purpose of inquiring by my own personal attention and otherwise, whether any improvement had been made in the Psalmody of any of the numerous new churches and chapels in and near London.
In securing the introduction of psalmody into the worship of the German Reformed church, John Zwick, pastor at Constance, who died in A.
In the West psalmody took a high flight with a true ecclesiastical character.
There is also a circumstantial account of American psalmody in J.
The order of psalmody for the day Hours being thus arranged, let all the remaining Psalms be equally distributed among the seven Night Offices by dividing the longer Psalms among them and assigning twelve Psalms to each night.
Let us therefore consider how we ought to conduct ourselves in the sight of the Godhead and of His Angels, and let us take part in the psalmody in such a way that our mind may be in harmony with our voice.
We have already arranged the order of the psalmody for the Night and Morning Offices; let us now provide for the remaining Hours.
The sight of what he was about, and of the tender way in which he was handling the child, drove all remembrance of his heresies and contumaciousness in the matter of psalmody out of her head.
From time immemorial, at least ever since the gallery at the west end had been built, the village psalmody had been in the hands of the occupiers of that Protestant structure.
In proof of such psalmody being quite national, I have been told that many of these tunes were composed by artisans, such as builders, joiners, blacksmiths, etc.
There was no doubt sometimes a degree of noise in the psalmody more than was consistent with good taste, but this often proceeded from the earnestness of those who joined.
I was used to hear such psalmody in my early days in the parish church of Fettercairn, where we always attended during summer.
Where such hymns and such discourses are admissible, the authors of them might take a part in conducting psalmody and in occupying the pulpit for preaching to a congregation.
Nothing can be more touching than the description by Burns of the domesticpsalmody of his father's cottage.
Going from sacred tunes to sacred words, a good many changes have taken place in the little history of our own psalmody and hymnology.
Psalmody was little more in favour than the gilded pipes of the organ.
The paraphrases have, on the strength of their own merits, established a secure place in the psalmody of all the Presbyterian churches in Scotland.
There is perhaps no country in Christendom," says Dr Cunningham, "in which psalmody has been as little cultivated as in Scotland.
The old doctrine of the Church of Scotland in regard to psalmody is tersely expressed in the first book of discipline.
The paraphrases have established a secure place in the psalmody of all the Presbyterian Churches in Scotland.
The brass band, including old grey-haired men who fifty years ago with strings and wood-wind led the psalmody at Chedworth Church, come too, and play inside the hall.
