| no other publication has influenced Christian song as this has; made up of materials from previous psalters; intiated by John Calvin and his belief in singing directly from Scripture; contained 125 diff melodies in 110 diff poetic meter |
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| Calvin’s philosophy on music |
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| simple to people, modest to Sovereign God |
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| recognized value of Christian song to nourish piety and church worship, believed in unison voices for simplicity |
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| influenced Calvin’s metrical psalmody |
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| Calvin’s early collection of metrical psalmody |
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| successor of Marot, wrote psalm versifications until 1562 (when a collection of all 150 psalms was prepared for publication) |
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| Issued a collection of all psalms in Dutch, first complete metric psalter in any language |
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| most sigificant psalter in Germany; wrote Der Psalter I (to be sung in tunes of Genevan psalter) |
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| edited Whole Book of Psalms which later became known as Old Version |
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