Title: The music of the French Psalter of 1562 ;
Authors: Pratt, Waldo Selden,; Bourgeois, Louis,; Marot, Clément,; Bèze, Théodore de,
Date: 1939
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Physical description: x pages, 1 ., 213 pages : frontispiece (facsimiles: music) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Part I. The psalter as a whole: Early Protestantism and its use of popular song -- The rise of French psalmody -- The significance of the completed French psalter -- The versification and meters -- The technical character of the tunes -- The metric patterns within the lines -- Further details of line-formation -- The imporance of the 1551 edition -- Polyphonic settings of the melodies -- Early diffusion of the French tunes outside of France -- Part II. The music of the psalter: The melodies in modern notation -- Index.
Notes: "The reproduction of the ... tunes in modern notation is based primarily upon one of the first editions of the completed Psalter, the title page of which reads as follows: Pseavmes de David mis en rime française par Clement Marot & Theodore de Beze ... A Paris, Par Adrian le Roy & Robert Ballard ... M.D.LXII."--p. 79. "Douen's contention seems plausible that for all the official editions from late in 1542 till 1557 Louis Bourgeois was the chief, if not the only, musical supervisor."--p. 59.
Subject headings (LCSH): Church music--France.; Church music--Reformed Church.; Marot, Clément, 1496-1544.; Psalmody--France.; Psalmody.; Psalters--France--History.