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The Reformation · completed 1562
The Genevan Psalter
Clément Marot and Theodore Beza
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What it is
All one hundred and fifty psalms in French metrical verse with tunes, sung in unison and unaccompanied by whole congregations.
Why it lasted
The songbook of Reformed Europe, sung by Huguenots on the way to execution and the source of tunes still used, including the Old Hundredth.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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