If you want to, you can legitimately substitute these psalms for Morning and Evening Prayer for any form of the Divine Office you use. The Coverdale Psalter is my chosen version as it has all 150 psalms pointed and set out on 30 day cycle and even includes the cursing psalms, which do not appear in some modern versions. Afterwards we quickly compare notes and when there are very occasional discrepencies, we decide whose we go with and we can now sing together with any of the Clayton Psalm Tones that they know. In my experience even young children from aged 7 or 8 can do it. Other than that you can get out a pencil and just point it as you say it! We have sung Vespers at home, for example, with the Anglican Use psalter (the beautiful Coverdale translation) and it took five minutes for everyone to get out a pencil and point it. now offers an option of seeing the whole psalter pointed in this way. You can obtain scores for all Paul Jernberg compositions at. We recommend his sung Mass for the new translation, the Mass of St Philip Neri. The harmonisations (with the exception of one done by Thomas Tallis) are done by Paul Jernberg.
If you get more sophisticated you can sing these tones in four-part harmonies - appropriate perhaps for more solemn liturgies and psalms sung in Mass.
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There is an instruction video below showing you how to do it and then it explains how to sing the psalm. This takes two minutes for an average psalm - you can just mark them lightly in pencil on the page of your breviary or bible. Pointing is the name given to marking the stressed syllables. In order to sing them you need to 'point" the text. So whichever version you or your group has, you can now sing it together. You don't have to buy a particular edition to sing them. You can apply these tones easily to any off-the-shelf psalter, bible or breviary. So if you don't like mine then compose your own, but if you use the system of matching the tone to the text, again, you can compose just one tone and then sing the whole psalter to it. Also, because the system of matching tone to text is so natural, it makes it easy to compose new tones. This means that in just a few minutes, you could have a completely fresh group able to learn a tone and sing a whole Office together. The system is so simple, that you don't need a deep musical training - if you can sing it, you can teach others to sing it. These tones are arranged so that any tone can be applied to any text and they always follow the natural rhythm of the words of the text. This means that once you understand how the system works, which is pretty simple, they flow naturally and it frees you to contemplate the text more deeply.Īny psalm tone can be sung to any psalm, so once you know even just one, you can sing the whole psalter.
The tones conform to the pattern of language, rather than imposing their own rhythm on the words. The starting point is the natural rhythm of speech. These psalm tones are modal and so work within the ancient musical form as traditional plainchant.
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