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Music Review: Deep Peace Songs / God Be In My Head, Angela Gorman
Music Review: Deep Peace Songs / God Be In My Head, Angela Gorman
Pastoral Liturgy
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Early Modern Scottish Metrical Psalmody: Origins And Practice, Timothy Duguid
Early Modern Scottish Metrical Psalmody: Origins And Practice, Timothy Duguid
Yale Journal of Music & Religion
Non-literate societies are often dependent on music for transmitting news and ideas because of music’s ability to enhance memory. Sixteenth-century reformers were aware of this, but they had to compete with secular and Roman Catholic music that often contradicted Reformed doctrine. Highly influenced by the Strasbourg-based Martin Bucer and the writings of Saint Augustine, John Calvin insisted that Biblical Psalms, set in vernacular poetry, were most appropriate for both corporate worship and private devotion. The result was a series of metrical psalters that were intended to be performable by everyone. Some editions had explicitly liturgical designs, but most were intended …