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The Genevan Psalter of 1562; Set in Four-Part Harmony by Claude Goudimel, in 1565

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

G. R. Woodward
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The germ of the Genevan Psalter is to be found in a metrical French version of Psalm 6. It consists of ten stanzas in six lines, in the measure of Insbruch, ich muss dich lassen, beginning Ne vueille pas, O Sire, the workmanship of Clément Marot. For full particulars of the history and literary compositions of this remarkable man, to whom French lyric poetry, as well as the Genevan Psalter, owes so much, the student is referred to M. Douen's “Clement Marot et le Psautier Huguenot,” a review of which, written by Major G. A. Crawford, appeared in the Musical Times during the months of June till November, 1881. But in a lecture on the French Psalter it is needful to say something, however briefly and disjointedly, on its originator.

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Proceedings of the Musical Association , Volume 44 , 1917 , pp. 167 - 192
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1917

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† Since the delivery of the lecture, Mr. E. J. Dent writes thus: “I should hesitate to treat lightly Madame Michel Brenet's investigations as to Goudimel's supposed connection with Palestrina. Haberl may have made his mistakes, and it is right that they should be corrected, but we must be grateful to him and the others who have exposed the errors of Baini.”Google Scholar

∗ The Lecturer was unaware that an interesting, learned, and scholarly Paper, on the “Laudi Spirituali” of the 16th and 17th centuries, had been read, in the presence of members of the Musical Association, on March 20, 1917, by Mr. E. J. Dent.Google Scholar