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metrical psalm

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metrical psalm
n
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a translation of one of the psalms into rhyming strict-metre verse usually sung as a hymn
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He belonged to the first generation of English composers to be steeped from earliest childhood in the sound of the metrical psalms of the Reformation, and to the last to write madrigals influenced by sixteenth-century Italian models.
Thomas Tomkins: The Last Elizabethan by Austern, Linda Phyllis / Renaissance Quarterly
Duncan,a former manager with the Liverpool Philharmonic, says:``I thought it would be wonderful to test the theory by comparing the fabulous tradition built up by Ken Burton and his award winning London choir, with the wonderful and quirky Gaelic metrical psalm singing of the Lewis choirs.
24seven: Was gospel music from Scottish highlands? by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
17) These rubrics referred to the metrical psalms in the most popular English psalter of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, Sternhold and Hopkins's Whole Book of Psalms.
The Newport Collection (1766): the First Baptist hymnal in America by Music, David W. / Baptist History and Heritage
 
 
 
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