English & Scottish psalm & hymn tunes, c.1543-1677 / [edited] by Maurice Frost.
| Author/creator | Frost, Maurice |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : SPCK ; London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1953. |
| Description | xvi, 531 pages : music ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface -- List of tunes classified according to the books in which they first appeared in the form given -- Adaptations from the French Genevan Psalter -- Adaptations from German sources -- Literature -- Part I -- Old verion Psalters: a description of their contents -- Metrical index to Part I -- Tunes associated with the 'old version', in the order of the hymns and psalms to which they were first set -- Scottish common tunes -- New four-line tunes from Ravenscroft, 1621 -- Part II -- Coverdale's 'Goostly psalmes', c. 1543 -- Seager's psalms, 1553 -- Tye's acts of the apostles, c. 1553 -- Matthew Parker's psalter, c. 1560-1567 -- Henry Ainsworth's psalter, 1612 -- Prys, 'Llyfr y psalmau', 1621 -- Wither's 'The songs of the Old Testamant', 1621 -- Wither's 'The hymnes and songs of the church', 1623 -- Sandys and Lawes, 'A paraphrase upon the divine poems', 1638 -- Barton's 'The Book of Psalms', 1644 -- Appendix I: William Hunnis 'Seven sobs', 1583 -- Appendix II: Robert Tailour's 'Fifti selected psalms' 1615 -- Appendix III: George Buchanan's Latin version of the Psalms. |
| Abstract | This foundational resource for musicologists and liturgical historians collates, compares, and presents the original tunes from the principal English and Scottish psalters of the Reformation and Post-Reformation periods. The book includes an introduction and commentary, a bibliography of the psalters, and the tunes in their original forms, often with modernized clefs and harmonies, making it a key reference for understanding early Protestant worship music. |
| General note | "'Old version' psalters, a description of their contents": pages [1]-52. |
| General note | "Tunes [partly in score] associated with 'Old version' 1556-1677": pages 53-531. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages xv-xvi. |
| LCCN | m 53001468 |
| ISBN | 9780281004218 |
| ISBN | 0281004218 |