Philip Sidney's Psalms Set to Music
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- Poet: Philip Sidney
- Instrumentation: Mixed Choir
- Work Language: English
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- Size: 8.5 x 11.0 inches
Description
Philip Sidney died in 1586 without publishing any of his now-revered poetry, including the first forty-three psalms, with the rest completed afterwards by his sister Mary, Countess of Pembroke. Mary published Philip's other works in 1598, but their joint psalter remained unpublished until 1823, circulating in coveted manuscript copies, and earning the admiration of the poet John Donne, among others. Donne said that the Sidneian Psalms "teach us how to sing," yet Philip's psalms failed to draw the attention of composers. Scholars have long believed they were not written for singing, despite three of them appearing as singing translations of the French metrical psalter in 1632. I propose that Sidney found poetic and musical models in the French psalter, which he and Mary knew intimately from their Huguenot tutor, and the French Protestant Church abutting their London home. The result is the first complete musical setting of Philip Sidney's psalms.
Contents:
- Psalm 1. He blessed is, who neither loosely treads
- Psalm 2. What ayles this heathenish rage?
- Psalm 3. Lord how do they encrease
- Psalm 4. Heare me, O heare me when I call
- Psalm 5. Ponder the words, O Lord, that I do say
- Psalm 6. Lord, let not me a worme by thee be shent
- Psalm 7. O Lord my God, thou art my trustfull stay
- Psalm 8. O Lord that rul'st Our mortall lyne
- Psalm 9. with all my heart O Lord I will prayse thee
- Psalm 10. Why standest thou so farr
- Psalm 11. Since I do trust Jehova still
- Psalm 12. Lord help, it is high time for me to call
- Psalm 13. How long, O Lord, shall I forgotten be?
- Psalm 14. The foolish man by flesh and fancy led
- Psalm 15. in Tabernacle thyne, O Lord, who shall remayne?
- Psalm 16. Save me Lord, for why thou art
- Psalm 17. My suite is just, just Lord to my suite hark
- Psalm 18. Thee will I love, O Lord, with all my heart's delight
- Psalm 19. The heavnly Frame sets forth the Fame
- Psalm 20. Let God the Lord heare thee
- Psalm 21. New joy, new joy unto Our King
- Psalm 22. My God my God why hast thou me forsaken?
- Psalm 23. The Lord the Lord my shepheard is
- Psalm 24. The earth is God's, and what the Globe of earth containeth
- Psalm 25. To thee, O Lord most just
- Psalm 26. Lord, judg me, and my case
- Psalm 27. The shining Lord he is my light
- Psalm 28. To thee Lord my cry I send
- Psalm 29. Ascribe unto the Lord of light
- Psalm 30. O Lord thou hast exalted me
- Psalm 31. All, all my trust Lord I have put in thee
- Psalm 32. Blessed is he whose filthy stain
- Psalm 33. Rejoice in God, O ye
- Psalm 34. I even I will always
- Psalm 35. Speake thou for me against wrong speaking foes
- Psalm 36. Me thinks amid my heart I heare
- Psalm 37. Frett not thy self, if thou do see
- Psalm 38. Lord while that thy rage doth bide
- Psalm 39. Thus did I think: I well will mark my way
- Psalm 40. While long I did with patient constancy
- Psalm 41. He blessed is, who with wise temper can
- Psalm 42. As the chafed hart which brayeth
- Psalm 43. Judg of all, judg me
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Philip Sidney's Psalms Set to Music
