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The Music of the French Psalter of 1562 : A Historical Survey and Analysis • With the Music in Modern Notation /

Pratt, Waldo Selden

The Music of the French Psalter of 1562 : A Historical Survey and Analysis • With the Music in Modern Notation / Waldo Selden Pratt. - 1 online resource (214 p.)

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. The Psalter as a Whole -- I. Early Protestantism and Its Use of Popular Song -- II. The Rise of French Psalmody -- III. The Significance of the Completed French Psalter -- IV. The Versification and Meters -- V. The Technical Character of the Tunes -- VI. The Metric Patterns within the Lines -- VII. Further Details of Line-Formation -- VIII. The Importance of the 1551 Edition -- IX. Polyphonic Settings of the Melodies -- X. Early Diffusion of the French Tunes Outside of France -- Part II. The Music of the Psalter -- XI. The Melodies in Modern Notation -- Index

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Studies the historic significance of the music in the French or Huguenot Psalter by presenting a rescript in modern notation of the one hundred and twenty-five melodies of Psalter.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780231938242 9780231895637

10.7312/prat93824 doi


MUSIC / Religious / Christian.