Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along ...

Boston’s Old South Church is selling a copy of the historic volume. Here’s why it’s such a big deal. The main thing you need to know right now about the Bay Psalm Book is that a copy of it is up for ...

Some claim music is rooted in our souls. Yet, if you've ever suffered through a tone-deaf friend singing along with the radio to one of your favorite tunes, you know that's not always true. When it ...

Helen Mark hears from Alec Blair that religion was a great binding factor for the Scots who settled in Ulster. Read more ...

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Christian music these days is pushing up to and across the boundaries of what many churches and denominations used to regard as acceptable. The introduction of new styles of music in worship—often ...

Sung in Gaelic by various inhabitants of the island of Lewis with Harris, Hebrides, Scotland. Notes: "The tunes ... are to be found in the Revised Church Hymnary and in The Scottish Psalter (1929).

Poets attending to the Psalms. There is a long tradition in both England and America of turning the Psalter into vernacular poetry. At first the task fell to Reformation-era biblical translators ...

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