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PRONUNCIATION OF METRICAL PSALM

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF METRICAL PSALM

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Metrical psalm is a noun.
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WHAT DOES METRICAL PSALM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Metrical psalter

A metrical psalter is a kind of Bible translation: a book containing a metrical translation of all or part of the Book of Psalms in vernacular poetry, meant to be sung as hymns in a church. Some metrical psalters include melodies or even harmonizations. The composition of metrical psalters was a large enterprise of the Protestant Reformation, especially in its Calvinist manifestation. The Old 100th psalm tune, a famous hymn from the metrical psalters...

Definition of metrical psalm in the English dictionary

The definition of metrical psalm in the dictionary is a translation of one of the psalms into rhyming strict-metre verse usually sung as a hymn.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE METRICAL PSALM

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WORDS THAT END LIKE METRICAL PSALM

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Synonyms and antonyms of metrical psalm in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «metrical psalm» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF METRICAL PSALM

Find out the translation of metrical psalm to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of metrical psalm from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «metrical psalm» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

格律诗
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

salmo métrica
570 millions of speakers

English

metrical psalm
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

छंद भजन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

المزمور متري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

метрическая псалом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

salmo métrica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্যাটেন্টিক সাম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

psaume métrique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mazmur metrik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

metrische Psalm
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

韻律詩篇
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

운율 시편
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Metrical Mazmur
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Thánh Vịnh vần
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மெட்ராஸ் சங்கீதம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

छंदोबद्ध स्तोत्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Metrik mezmur
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

salmo metrica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

psalm metryczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

метрична псалом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

psalm metric
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

έμμετρο ψαλμός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

metriese Psalm
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

metrisk psalm
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

metriske salme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of metrical psalm

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «METRICAL PSALM»

The term «metrical psalm» is barely ever used and occupies the 207.918 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «METRICAL PSALM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about metrical psalm

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METRICAL PSALM»

Discover the use of metrical psalm in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to metrical psalm and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Tudor Church Music of the Lumley Books
... 52 [14] Iubilate Deo metrical psalm 55 [15] Benedicite metrical canticle 57 [16] Benedictus metrical canticle 60 [17] Domine Dominus noster metrical psalm 65 [ 18] Usquequo Domine metrical psalm 68 [19] Celi enarrant metrical psalm 70 [20 ] ...
Judith Blezzard, 1985
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Daily Prayer: The Worship of God
A metrical psalm is a psalm in which the psalm text is paraphrased into poetic meter (usually rhyming) and sung to a hymn tune. Such a psalm is sometimes called a "psalm hymn." Familiar metrical psalms include: Psalm 23, "The Lord's My ...
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), 1987
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The Music of the English Parish Church:
This volume provides an anthology of parish church music of all kinds from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, newly edited from primary sources for study or for performance.
Nicholas Temperley, 2005
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Religion and Drama in Early Modern England: The Performance ...
36 The similarities between this hymn and the metrical psalm from which it is derived are clear: “A Thanksgiving” is set to the tune of psalm 81, and it shares the first three lines with the psalm, though the fourth line is changed from “To Jacob's ...
Dr Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Dr Elizabeth Williamson, 2013
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Psalms in the Early Modern World
The English-texted metrical psalm was a genre strongly associated with the Reformed Church, and with domestic performance, but if these works were primarily for adherents to the reformed religion, why did this community feel as embattled ...
Ms Kari Boyd McBride, Mr David L Orvis, Assoc Prof Linda Austern, 2013
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The Musical Times
Doubtless this change in the Anthems' words from verses of human compositions to Scripture selections, was to a great extent brought about by the use of the other permitted form of the old Church Hymn in the Metrical Psalm, whose tune ...
‎1865
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Christian Hymnody in Twentieth-century Britain and America: ...
Thus, the creation of new metrical psalm versions became a priority and many late- twentieth century hymn writers turned their hand to versifying the psalms and other scripture passages. One of the most significant collections of new metrical ...
David W. Music, 2001
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A Theological Miscellany: 160 Pages of Odd, Merry, ...
“The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want” (Ps. 23, Scottish Psalter of 1650) is an example of a “loose fitting” and rhymed metrical psalm. Anglican Chant . . . . . . . . This is a nonmetrical form of singing, in which it is not necessary to alter the form of ...
McTavish McTavish, 2007
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English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century
These were the heritage of the metrical psalm. While the number of available tunes, and therefore metrical arrangements, increased radically during the century, in the psalters each psalm was rendered in the three standard measures : ...
Madeleine Forell Marshall, Janet Todd, 1982
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The Hymnal 1982 Companion
The Ascendancy of the Metrical Psalm As indicated in other essays ("English Metrical Psalmody" and "The Tunes of Congregational Song in Britain from the Reformation to 1750"), the principal form of congregational song that developed in ...
Raymond F. Glover, 1990

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METRICAL PSALM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term metrical psalm is used in the context of the following news items.
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(I'd recently finished my first book on sixteenth-century English metrical psalm versions, which includes a chapter on how the biblical poetry of ... «Irish Times, Jan 15»
2
Music in the Christian Religion
On the other hand, stern Calvinists, Presbyterians, Huguenots and Puritans mandated an austere music, consisting mostly of a cappella metrical psalm singing. «Opposing Views, Apr 13»
3
New minister is inducted at Gairloch
The evening closed with the singing of metrical Psalm 133, which expresses the spirit in which Mr and Mrs MacLeod are welcomed into the ... «Ross-Shire Journal, Jul 11»
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An Anglican Prayer Book (2008): The Order for the Holy Communion …
In the time of Elizabeth I permission was given to sing a metrical psalm before and after the sermon and before and after the service, and it subsequently became ... «Virtue Online, Mar 08»

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