Introduction to English Metrical
Psalmody
Timeline of the historical context
of English Metrical Psalmody
Life and Times of Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
The Anglican Church
Church
of England
Chronology
of the Anglican Church
The Anglican Church
-- official WEB site for the Church of England
Anglo-Catholic
The
Episcopal Church
Anglican
The
Book of Common Prayer (by by J. H. Benton, 1910)
The
Book of Common Prayer, 1549
The
Book of Common Prayer, 1552
The
Book of Common Prayer, 1559
See
later editions of the BCP
See
editions of the BCP used in various communions throught the world
Anglican
Chant
Purchase
CD recordings of Anglican Chant
Listen to Psalm 101 (MP3)
-- St.
Peter's Church, Nottingham, England
Listen to Psalm 119 (MP3) -- St.
Peter's Church, Nottingham, England
The Anglican Service of 1552
Important English Psalters
The Anglo-Genevan Psalter
List
of Tunes in the 1566 Anglo Genevan Psalter
Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter (The Old Version), The
Whole Book of Psalms, 1562
The
Old Version
The Whole
Booke of Psalmes
The
Whole Booke of Psalmes
The Whole Booke of Psalms
Frontpiece
The
Old Version and Related Tunes
Appendixes
of the Old Version & the related Tunes
Buy
a copy of the Book of Common Prayer with The Whole Booke
of Psalmes ($2500.00)
Tate and Brady's Psalter (The New Version), 1692
The
New Version (Tate and Brady, 1696)
A New Version
of the Psalms of David
Editions
of the Complete Metrical Psalms found in The British Museum
Tunes
from All Musical Editions of The Whole Book of Psalms
Links to Other Psalters
cgmusic.com has a great link
to several Psalters
which includes COMPLETE TEXTS:
The
Bay Psalm Book (1640)
The Scottish
Psalter (1650)
Watts',
Psalms Imitated in the Languageof the New Testament (1709)
Day's Psalter
The Whole Booke of Psalmes: With The Humnes Evangelicall, and
Songs Spiritual. [...] (1621)
Este's Psalter
The Whole Booke of Psalmes: With The Humnes Evangelicall, and
Songs Spiritual. [...] (1621)
Thomas Ravenscroft's Psalter
The
Whole Booke of Psalmes: With The Humnes Evangelicall, and Songs
Spiritual. [...] (1621)
History of the English Bible
Versions
of the Bible - From BELIEVE. This is a concise, introductory
article. Start here.)
History
of the English Bible - The Wabash Center for Biblical Studies.
A listing of several sites with comprehensive information.
A
Survey of the Documents and History of the Bible - A lengthy
but provocative article on the history of the English Bible.
View
high quality scans of a variety of historical bibles from papyri
to the King James.
The
Genevan Bible (a [probably] biased article on the Genevan Bible
from THE PURITAN's MIND.)
King James'
Bible
Miscellaneous Articles on English Psalmody
Metrical
psalms - the words
Hymn
Singing of 17th Century Separatists
Music in the Reformation
Outline
of Music in the Reformation (University of Wisconson)
Renaissance
[musical] Style
Renaissance
Dance
Music in Tudor
England -- Sacred Music | Secular Music | Instruments of the
period | Images of original pieces | Composers | Sound files and
lyrics
Thomas
Tallis
William
Byrd
John
Bull
John
Gibbons
Listen to a sound clip
of Robert White's, Lamentations (in the style
of 16th century vocal polyphony, All
Souls, Oxford) -- MP3 file
A select bibliography
of music and liturgy in the Renaissance and Reformation.
Explore some sites devoted to the English Reformation
Henry VIII
Henry
VIII (from the BBC)
See Henry's Ten
Articles - the 'most important document in English Church history.'
William Tyndale
(Portrait
of Tyndale)
See William Tyndale's
Bible along with comments
John
Wycliff
Benjamin Keach
So, what's a Dissenter?
Puritamism
Congregationalism;
also see Congretationalists
Independents
(Separatists)
Nonconformists;
also see Nonconformists
Baptists
Quakers
Unitarianism;
also see Unitarians
The
Genevan Book of Order: The Form of Prayers and Ministration
of the Sacraments, etc. Used in the English Congregation
at Geneva (1556).
Explore some sites devoted to The Protestant Reformation:
The
Reformation Guide (Michigan State University)
The Protestant
Reformation (Hanover College)
The Protestant
Reformation (from the site, A
Puratin's Mind)
The Catholic
Counter-Reformation (Hanover College)
Selected Source
Readings from the Reformation Era (from t he Internet
Midieval Sourcebook)
