Metrical version of Psalm 19

Title

Metrical version of Psalm 19

Contributor

John Cotton et al.

Is Part Of

The vvhole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre. Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfullnes, but also the necessity of the heavenly ordinance of singing Scripture Psalmes in the churches of God

Publisher

[Cambridge, Mass.: Imprinted by S. Daye]

Date

1640

Description

The Bay Psalm Book (complete title: The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre) is a metrical psalter first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It contains no melodies, only texts, but this excerpt is included here because Dr. Southern devotes several paragraphs to it in The Music of Black Americans. 

Is Referenced By

Eileen Southern, The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 32.

Identifier

piece007

Files

Citation

“Metrical version of Psalm 19,” The Music in The Music of Black Americans, accessed August 9, 2026, https://musicinmoba.harvardmusiclib.share.library.harvard.edu/items/show/77.