The full sense of the word is thought to come from the Syriac word mušaḥta ( ܡܘܫܚܬܐ ) meaning " rhythm " or " a psalm verse ".

Almost half of the Psalms are headed " A Psalm of David ", although the phrase can also be translated as " to David " or " for David ", but no psalm can be attributed to David with certainty.

He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).

Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart ; let him produce a psalm, a vision, a prayer -- only let it be by the Spirit, in an ecstasy, that is, in a rapture, whenever an interpretation of tongues has occurred to him ; let him show to me also, that any woman of boastful tongue in his community has ever prophesied from amongst those specially holy sisters of his.

It is a psalm that is prescribed for Christmas Day and also to be read at morning prayer on the fourth day of the month.

Thus literate lay defendants often also claimed the right to benefit of clergy ; furthermore, as the Biblical passage used for the literacy test was always Psalm 51 ( Miserere mei, Deus ...-" O God, have mercy upon me ..."), an illiterate person who had memorized the psalm could also claim benefit of clergy.

This psalm can obviously be seen as referring to a particular king of Judah, but has also been understood of the awaited Messiah.

At the evening service there is a selection of from four to seven psalms, varying with the day of the week, and also a Shuraya, or short psalm, with generally a portion of Psalm 118, varying with the day of the fortnight.

Its psalter — an inclusive-language revision of the psalter from the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer — also includes a collect for each psalm.

The pope also mentions ( in paragraph 26 ) Psalms 132, a liturgical psalm commemorating the return of the Ark of God to Jerusalem < ref >

Scalpay is also home to many great Gaelic singers and psalm presenters and is well known for its use in Gaidhlig.

Tye's Latin church music includes psalm settings and masses — notably one based on the song " The Western Wynde " ( also the basis of masses by John Taverner and John Sheppard ).

The psalm " Deus, Deus meus " ( Ps 62 Vulgate ) is also repeated daily.

He also wrote sacred choral music, including Tenebrae responsories for use during Easter and a psalm setting, all of which show a dignified and restrained approach, much in keeping with the Neapolitan style for liturgical music, and reflective of the work of the brothers Anerio and Gesualdo.

Donato also wrote madrigals in a more serious style, as well as psalm settings, motets, and ceremonial music.

* The entire psalm is recited in the Arizal's rite of the bedtime Shema on weekdays, and is also part of the regular tikkun chatzot prayers.

He also wrote psalm settings, and " sacred concertos " in the concertato style — one of the most distinctive forms of the Italian early Baroque.

He also composed cantatas and organ pieces, as well as the hymn tune Alberta ( often used for the words Lead, Kindly Light ), and various Anglican psalm chants.

The psalm verse and Gloria Patri ( Doxology ) which are sung as part of the Introit ( and optionally the Communion antiphon ) of the Mass and of the greater responsories of the Office of Readings ( Matins ) and the reformed offices of Lauds and Vespers are also sung to similar sets of reciting tones that depend on the musical mode.

The psalm is also chanted with special solemnity at Orthodox funeral services and on the various All-Souls Days occurring throughout the year, with " Alleluia " chanted between each verse.

He also composed psalm chants, hymn tunes, and a cantata, The Prodigal Son, for choir and chamber orchestra.

He also compiled chants and psalm texts to make the St. Paul Cathedral Psalter.

# The invocations beginning " Avinu Malkeinu " ( Our Father, our King ) are read in the morning and afternoon services of the Ten Days, except on the Sabbath, Friday afternoons, and the 9th of Tishrei, the eve of the Day of Atonement, which is a sort of semi-holy day, and on which the penitential psalm with all its incidents is also omitted.

A five-part psalm for three choirs was sung at the funeral.

Moreover one of Byrd's earliest compositions was a collaboration with two Chapel Royal singing-men, John Sheppard and William Mundy, on a setting for four male voices of the psalm In exitu Israel for the procession to the font in Easter week.

In a psalm of David that appears in 2 Samuel 22: 11 and Psalms 18: 10, David said that the " rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

From 1577 the new psalm translation was dropped altogether ; while further incremental changes were made to the text of the New Testament in subsequent editions.

Each psalm was followed by a short prayer ( P. L., XLIX, 83-4, 88-9 ).

" This was the Puritan term for the verse ascription used at the conclusion of every hymn, like the " Gloria ," at the end of a chanted psalm.

After singing a psalm at the cross, the Sanquhar Declaration was read aloud by Michael Cameron, calling for war against Charles II, denounced as a “ tyrant ”, and the exclusion of his openly Roman Catholic brother James from the succession.

" Heyr himna smiður " ( Hark, Creator of the heaven ) is probably the oldest psalm which is still sung today ; it was composed by Kolbeinn Tumason in 1208.

His output of sacred music was even more remarkable: he wrote 120 psalm settings, for one voice, chorus, basso continuo, and various other instruments ; 54 motets, for similar forces ; 28 masses ; 83 versetti and other liturgical works.

This particular psalm constitutes an exorcism, which not a few scholars have argued is based on an actual ritual of exorcism that was carried out in the days of the author.

This is shown by several of his works: his setting of In te domine speravi, based on the psalm which was the subject of that man's last writing before he was burned at the stake ; and the use of the tune most closely associated with the monk, Ecce quam bonum, the song which unified his followers during his final conflict, and which appears in the inner voices in Verdelot's motet Letamini in domino.

An alternatim setting of the processional psalm In exitu Israel, composed for the Paschal Vigil, was set jointly by Sheppard, William Mundy and the young William Byrd.

As the cart was drawn away, he commended his soul to God with the words of the psalm in manus tuas.

It was either on account of the secrecy of their meetings, or because of some mystical idea which made the middle of the night the hour par excellence for prayer, in the words of the psalm: media nocte surgebam ad confitendum tibi, that the Christians chose the night time for their synaxes, and of all other nights, preferably that leading to the first day of the week.

Although for many years scholars believed that Psalm 151 might have been an original Greek composition and that “ there is no evidence that Psalm 151 ever existed in Hebrew ”, we now know from the Dead Sea scrolls that this psalm did in fact exist in Hebrew and was a part of the psalter used by the Qumran community.

The title of the psalm claims that it was written by King David after his battle with Goliath.

Interest in it was rekindled by the archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Beckett in the 12th century and later in the 15th, when it was rediscovered by Johannes Trithemius, abbot of the benedictine abbey of Sponheim, in a psalm written entirely in Tironian shorthand and a Ciceronian lexicon, which were discovered in a Benedictine monastery ( notæ benensis ).

Franck was a popular composer, and wrote an enormous amount of music, including more than 40 books of motets for a total of over 600 motets alone ; in addition he wrote secular songs, including quodlibets, psalm settings, bicinia, tricinia, instrumental dances and numerous miscellaneous pieces.

Carpentras composed several masses, numerous settings of the Magnificat, psalm settings, hymns, motets, and secular songs, as well as many settings of the Lamentations, which were his most famous work both during his lifetime and until 1587 when Palestrina was commissioned by the Counter-Reformation church to replace them.

Originally, there was a psalm sung between each reading, of which in the fifth century there were three ( Prophets, Epistle, and Gospel ).

His Italian compositions have always been known but recently some of his South American church music was discovered in Chiquitos, Bolivia: two Masses, two psalm settings, three Office hymns, a Te Deum laudamus and other pieces.

Claude Goudimel, a Protestant composer most noted for his Calvinist-inspired psalm settings, was murdered in Lyon during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.