The Scottish Psalter of 1635

<body><msnavigation dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><msnavigation valign="top"> <p ALIGN="CENTER"><font color="#008040"><big>The</big><br> <big><big><big><b>Scottish Psalter</b> </big></big></big><br> <big><big><strong>of 1635</strong></big></big></font></p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2">EDITED WITH MODAL HARMONIES</font></p> <font SIZE="1"> <p ALIGN="CENTER">BY</font></p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">RICHARD RUNCIMAN TERRY<br> <img src="../images/narule.gif" alt="narule.gif (477 bytes)" width="300" height="10"></p> <blockquote> <p>"This Psalter represents the high-water mark of the psalmody of the Reformation in Scotland. Here the Church music of the period comes to its climax."</p> <p ALIGN="RIGHT">Dr. Millar Patrick, "Four Centuries of Scottish Psalmody" <br> Oxford University Press, 1950</p> </blockquote> <p>After such a build up we were very pleased and surprised when we found a copy of Mr. Terry's  20<sup>th</sup> century reproduction of this rare and little known Psalter. The title of the reproduction is shown above. The book is in two sections. The first section contains the tunes of the original Psalter re-set in modern musical notation. The second section contains a reproduction of the original Psalter, including its music.</p> <p>The Scottish Psalter of 1635 uses the Psalm versifications of the 1564 Scottish Psalter, which in turn was the continuation of the work of Sternhold and Hopkins and the the Anglo-Genevan Psalters. (See "<a href="../library/oldver.htm">The Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter</a>")<br>         The Scottish Psalter that was published in 1564 included a much more varied selection of metres than the English Psalter. It also included some 21 settings done in Scotland after the return from exile. Opinions about the overall quality of the poetry of this version is varied.  </p> <p><b>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</b></p> <p>Complete essay: <a href="../library/scottish_1635.htm">The Scottish Psalter of 1635</a><br> <a href="scot1635_index.htm">Index of Psalms from the Psalter</a> <p> </td></tr></table><msnavigation border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td> <p align="center"><img border="0" src="../images/narule.gif" width="300" height="10"> <small><br> Page Copyright 2001, <a target="_parent" href="/cgmusic.com/">Music for the Church of God</font></a><br> e-mail us at:<a href="mailto:webmaster@cgmusic.com"> webmaster@cgmusic.com</a><br> Page last modified on: 07/29/2004</font> <img src="../../cgmusic/home.asp" alt="" border="0" WIDTH="0" HEIGHT="0" lowsrc="../../cgmusic/images/pixel.gif"> </small></p> </td></tr></table></body>