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Responsorial psalmody primarily refers to the placement and use of the Psalm within the readings at a Christian service of the Eucharist. The Psalm chosen in such a context is often called the responsorial psalm. They are found in the liturgies of several Christian denominations, including those of Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism and Anglicanism.
Beatus vir (Ecclesiastical Latin: [beˈatus ˈvir]; "Blessed is the man ...") [a] are the first words in the Latin Vulgate Bible of both Psalm 1 and Psalm 112 (in the general modern numbering; it is Psalm 111 in the Greek Septuagint and the Vulgate [b]). In each case, the words are used to refer to frequent and significant uses of these psalms ...
Some see the Law and the work of the Messiah set side by side in Psalms 1 and 2, 18 and 19, 118 and 119. They see the law and the Messiah opening the book of Psalms. [21] [22] Book 1 of the Psalms begins and ends with 'the blessed man': the opening in Psalms 1–2 [23] and the closing in Psalms 40–41. [24]
The most general definition of a responsory is any psalm, canticle, or other sacred musical work sung responsorially, that is, with a cantor or small group singing verses while the whole choir or congregation respond with a refrain. However, this article focuses on those chants of the western Christian tradition that have traditionally been ...
Excerpt from the manuscript of the gradual of the abbey of St.-Baafs in Ghent.Made in 1469. [3]The Gradual, like the Alleluia and Tract, is one of the responsorial chants of the Mass. Responsorial chants derive from early Christian traditions of singing choral refrains called responds between psalm verses.
Psalm 18 ("I love you, O Lord, my strength.") Psalm 20 ("The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee") Psalm 21 ("The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!") Psalm 45 ("My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching ...
Musicam Sacram, a 1967 document from the Second Vatican Council said to govern the use of sacred music, states that "those instruments which are, by common opinion and use, suitable for secular music only, are to be altogether prohibited from every liturgical celebration and from popular devotions". [26]
Psalm 3 was written by Philip Sidney and adapts the third biblical Psalm, told from the perspective of David when he fled from his son Absalom. When Philip Sidney died in a military campaign, he had completed only 43 of the Psalms. The remaining translations were left for his sister. A copy was presented to Elizabeth I in 1599. Although The ...