The Music of the French Psalter of 1562 : A Historical Survey and Analysis • With the Music in Modern Notation / Waldo Selden Pratt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pratt, Waldo Selden, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1939]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies the historic significance of the music in the French or Huguenot Psalter by presenting a rescript in modern notation of the one hundred and twenty-five melodies of Psalter.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword / Kinkeldey, Otto

Preface

Contents

Part I. The Psalter as a Whole

I. Early Protestantism and Its Use of Popular Song

II. The Rise of French Psalmody

III. The Significance of the Completed French Psalter

IV. The Versification and Meters

V. The Technical Character of the Tunes

VI. The Metric Patterns within the Lines

VII. Further Details of Line-Formation

VIII. The Importance of the 1551 Edition

IX. Polyphonic Settings of the Melodies

X. Early Diffusion of the French Tunes Outside of France

Part II. The Music of the Psalter

XI. The Melodies in Modern Notation

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89563-1

OCLC:

1100454694