{"id":397,"date":"2018-05-17T02:48:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T02:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/?p=397"},"modified":"2018-05-17T03:20:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T03:20:58","slug":"archbishop-parkers-psalter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/2018\/05\/archbishop-parkers-psalter\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Parker&#8217;s Psalter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1567, Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker published a translation of the Psalms in verse. You can read more about it at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www0.cpdl.org\/wiki\/index.php\/The_Whole_Psalter_Translated_(1567)\">http:\/\/www0.cpdl.org\/wiki\/index.php\/The_Whole_Psalter_Translated_(1567)<\/a> . Thomas Tallis wrote a collection of 9 tunes using the meters found in Parker&#8217;s verse, so that any psalm in the collection may be sung to one or more of the melodies.<\/p>\n<p>I reset\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tune-8-with-Psalm-67.pdf\">Tune 8 with Psalm 67<\/a>\u00a0to better fit a modern choir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The third tune was used by Ralph Vaughn Williams in his &#8220;Fantasy of a theme by Thomas Tallis&#8221;. Tallis used Psalm 2 as his example for that melody, but Psalm 23 would work with it also.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-401\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Parker-psalm-23-pg-1-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Parker-psalm-23-pg-1-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Parker-psalm-23-pg-1-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Parker-psalm-23-pg-1-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Parker-psalm-23-pg-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-402\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Parker-psalm-23-pg-2-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Parker-psalm-23-pg-2-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Parker-psalm-23-pg-2-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Parker-psalm-23-pg-2-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Parker-psalm-23-pg-2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1567, Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker published a translation of the Psalms in verse. You can read more about it at\u00a0http:\/\/www0.cpdl.org\/wiki\/index.php\/The_Whole_Psalter_Translated_(1567) . Thomas Tallis wrote a collection of 9 tunes using the meters found in Parker&#8217;s verse, so that any psalm in the collection may be sung to one or more of the melodies. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/2018\/05\/archbishop-parkers-psalter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Archbishop Parker&#8217;s Psalter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrangements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twmarsh.net\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}