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"The Whole Booke of Psalmes was one of the most published and widely read books of early modern England, running to over 1000 editions between the 1570s and the early eighteenth century. It offered all of the Psalms paraphrased in verse with appropriate tunes, together with an assortment of other scriptural and non-scriptural hymns, and prose prayers for domestic use. Because the Elizabethan Church rapidly and pervasively (if unofficially) adopted this metrical psalter for congregational singing, and because it had in practical terms no rivals for church use until the end of the seventeenth century, essentially the entire conforming population of early modern England after 1570 would have been familiar with its psalms and hymns as elements of both public worship and private devotion." "Yet, despite the significant impact of The Whole Booke of Psalmes upon English culture and literature, this is the first book-length study of it, and the first sustained critical examination of the texts of which it comprises. In large part this neglect is due to the reputation it gained after the mid-seventeenth century as a work of poor poetry mainly valued by vulgar and/or sectarian audiences. This later reception, however, was the product of not only changing literary tastes but an ideological desire to reshape the history of the Reformation. This study focuses on the actual aims of its authors and editors over the course of its gradual composition during the tumultuous religious changes of the mid-sixteenth century, and recovers its significant influence on the English church and literary practice."--Jacket.
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Church music, History and criticism, Psalms (Music), Church of England, Psalmboeken, Psalters, Psalter (Church of England), Psalms (music), Church of england, Church music, church of england, Music, history and criticism, 16th century, Musique d'église, Psaumes (Musique), Histoire et critique, MUSIC, Instruction & Study, Voice, Lyrics, Printed Music, VocalTimes
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Reformation in Rhyme: Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547-1603
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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Reformation in Rhyme: Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547-1603
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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The Reformation in rhyme: Sternhold, Hopkins and the English metrical psalter, 1547-1603
2009, Ashgate
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0754663264 9780754663263
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