While lockdown, quarantine and isolation continue, we gather by video conference on Sundays. The Psalms in the South leader and webmaster continues to provide the song of the day from home, but: All musical members and participants are invited to review this list and volunteer to present the song of the week. Music from sources … Continue reading Crystal Ball, Sep-Nov 2021
Month: August 2021
Psalm 84, 22 Aug 21
How lovely is thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts, to me.Psalm 84:1 So begins the setting for Psalm 84 in the Scottish Psalter of 1650. This tome in turn drew on the Calvin's Genevan psalter a century earlier -- in French of course -- but the song appears almost unchanged in Together in Song … Continue reading Psalm 84, 22 Aug 21
Psalm 45, 29 August 2021
Psalms 45 is a song for a royal wedding. In this miniature King Richard II of England receives his bride, the princess Isabel, from her father, Charles VI, king of France. (Royal 14 D. vi, f. 268v British Library) Psalm 45, a tribute to the wedding of a king, is the closest we get to … Continue reading Psalm 45, 29 August 2021
Psalm 130, 8 August 21
You may remember that we heard this lovely inspirational song of ascents a little more than a month ago, at the end of June. Psalm 129 called for deliverance from Israel's enemies: Psalm 130 seeks deliverance from their own failings, and cries from the heart: 1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O … Continue reading Psalm 130, 8 August 21
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