Psalm chants?

[CSMR]

We used to chant psalms as a congregation in chapel at college. Are anglicans here familiar with this? Does anyone know where music is available? We are looking at some of the psalms in my fellowship group and it would be nice to sing one or two of them.

[Bonifatius]

In my former church we used "Sunday Psalms - Musical Settings for Common Worship" published by Kevn Mayhew which I found very useful. The responses were quite easy to learn for the congregation and the chants nicely done but mainly intended to be sung by a cantor rather than a choir in harmony.

[pmcleanj]

A collection of all the most common Anglican metrical chant melodies is in the back of the Book of Common Praise. Chanting the Psalms and the Canticles used to be the norm. It's something I miss tremendously: a whole nave-ful of people of all ages, all joining together nearly reflexively in that irregular, free-flowing praise. In less than a generation, it has gone from a popular praxis to vanishing obscurity.

[gtsecc]

I chant them when I read evenign prayer with my Bible Study group.

[ContraMundum]

I always use chant in public worship.

You can find the music for chant in some BCP's.

[Naomi4Christ]

a whole nave-ful of people of all ages, all joining together nearly reflexively in that irregular, free-flowing praise.

What an excellent description for singing in tongues :)

[gtsecc]

Some of the oldest chant tones are "Gregorian" but some of these are actually believed to pre date the incarnation, and may have been used by Jew to Chant the Psalms in the synagouges. In the USA, some of them are listed in the begining of the Hymnal 1982 on the pages beggining with the letter S - so look for somethign liek S 2.4.1

[chalice_thunder]

All the chants can be found in various editions of the Plainsong Psalter. In the Episcopal Plainsong Psalter they are listed according to Tone and variation.

During Lent we have used a single tone, (VIII.i) which has made for some very excellent chanting done by the congregation. Yesterday's chanting was hair-raising! (in a good way :))

[gtsecc]

Chalice_Thunder vbmenu_register("postmenu_23164685", true); - Are you all going to sing Pange Linga on Good Friday ? Is that not the sequence Hymn? To keep from derailing this thread, will you respond in the thread I started on this?

[chalice_thunder]

Chalice_Thunder vbmenu_register("postmenu_23164685", true); - Are you all going to sing Pange Linga on Good Friday ? Is that not the sequence Hymn? To keep from derailing this thread, will you respond in the thread I started on this?

sure;)

[CSMR]

Thanks for the pointers everyone!

[erin74]

I once heard a cd where a choir chanted the immigration act to one of the psalm chants. I just had to share that - it was really funny.

[gtsecc]

Churches without Chanters, do they just skip the reading of the Psalms for that day?

[gtsecc]

We used to chant psalms as a congregation in chapel at college. Are anglicans here familiar with this? Does anyone know where music is available? We are looking at some of the psalms in my fellowship group and it would be nice to sing one or two of them.
Mayeb this would be helpful. We always start our Bible study with a modified version of evening prayer. We sing O'Gladsome Light as the Orthodox do (maybe it is a Byzantine tune) and chant the psalms. Soem of the Gregorian tones are simple enough that anyone can do them this way. In the American hymnal, I like tone S2.4.1 (I think that is it)

[DeoJuvante]

Churches without Chanters, do they just skip the reading of the Psalms for that day?
In my experience they either read them as a responsorial psalm or the choir sings them.

[erin74]

Churches without Chanters, do they just skip the reading of the Psalms for that day?
We read them. Sometimes we split the church in half and alternate each verse. Sometimes we read them together. Sometimes they are read as a bible reading.

I think I would find having them chanted quite distracting to be honest. I have a hard enough time concentrating on them when we have to do the alternate verse thing.

[chalice_thunder]

We read them. Sometimes we split the church in half and alternate each verse. Sometimes we read them together. Sometimes they are read as a bible reading.

I think I would find having them chanted quite distracting to be honest. I have a hard enough time concentrating on them when we have to do the alternate verse thing.


Nevertheless, they are intended to be chanted.

The Psalter IS the Hebrew Hymnal.