Editorial Notes, Errata, and Endorsments
Translations:
This volume draws upon multiple translations, representing a variety of Christian traditions:
- The initial presentation of a psalm text is taken from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV).
- Lectionary-based responsorial psalms are taken from Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Augsburg Fortress Press), a text used in a wide variety of ecumenical settings.
- Other translations or paraphrases include the New International Version (NIV), the New Living Translation (NLT), Eugene Peterson’s The Message, Calvin Seerveld’s Voicing God’s Psalms (Eerdman’s Publishing Company), the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), Common Worship: Daily Prayer, and the Psalter for the Christian People, each of which is identified.
Use of LORD and Lord:
Modern Bible translations indicate the use of the Tetragrammaton (the four-letter Hebrew name for God, “YHWH”) using all capital letters, as in LORD. When the sources of the musical settings indicated the use of the Tetragrammaton with LORD or GOD, this was maintained. When text writers did not intend to make such distinctions, no further editorial attempts were made to reconcile their versification to the use of the Tetragrammaton in the psalm. The use of the word “Jehovah” has been avoided.
Additional Editorial Notes
Please turn to pages viii-x of Psalms for All Seasons for information on the following topics:
- Use of the Gloria Patri
- Psalm Prayers
- Chords for Guitar and Keyboard
- Performing Songs with Refrains
- Use of Time Signatures and Barlines
- Performance Notes
- Lectionary Use
- Indexes
Additional Resources
This book provides a feast of resources. When we sit down to a festive meal we can approach the abundance with such enthusiasm and consume so much at one time that we lose our appetite for more. Or we can approach the feast with wisdom, taking only as much as we can enjoy, savoring each taste. You are encouraged to take the second approach. Begin where you and your community are most comfortable. Explore in small doses approaches outside your comfort zone. Savor the feast.
Errata
Please Note: We, the publisher, have tried our best to make this book as free of errors as possible. However, we are human and as humans, we are not perfect. We will be making the necessary corrections, as we have them, at the time of the subsequent printings. This list is not exhaustive. Thank you for your understanding!
Songs:
○ Music correction: at the end, change To Refrain to To Stanza 2
Resources:
Index of Copyright Holders:
Author, Composes and Sources:
Index of Genre and Musical Styles:
Subjects and Seasons:
Tune Name Index:
Index of First Lines and Common Titles:
○ Jubilate, Servite.....100G (632)
○ Your Love is Never Ending.....136C (888)
○ In measure 6: The melody (soprano) line should match the melody line in measure 2.
Songs:
- 43B: Send Out Your Light
○ Music correction: at the end, change To Refrain to To Stanza 2
- 44A: O God, We Have Heard
Resources:
- 117F: O Praise the Lord Our God
- 133D: Miren qué bueno/Oh, Look and Wonder
- 134B: Come, Bless the Lord
Index of Copyright Holders:
- See the updated Copyright Holders Index
Author, Composes and Sources:
- Genevan Psalter: add the following pages: 158, 262, 302, 324, 623, 628, 874, 955, 1029
- Dale Grotenhuis: remove page 276
- Joy F. Patterson: page 750, not 50
- Martin Tel: add page 276
Index of Genre and Musical Styles:
- Recently Written Responsorial Psalmody: add Val Parker
- Settings from the Spectrum of Afro-American Gospel Music: add Val Parker
Subjects and Seasons:
- Add to God's House: page 132
Tune Name Index:
- Add: BLUE PSALM, page 18
Index of First Lines and Common Titles:
- Add:
○ Jubilate, Servite.....100G (632)
○ Your Love is Never Ending.....136C (888)
- Change:
○ In measure 6: The melody (soprano) line should match the melody line in measure 2.
In the News
Article from October 26, 2012, The Banner.
- The Banner's Melissa Holtrop covers a Psalmfest at Hope CRC in Illinois that featured "Psalms for All Seasons". These Psalmfests are supported by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.
Endorsements
Endorsement from James Abbington
James Abbington talked to the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship about his use of Psalms for All Seasons. Watch Video
James Abbington is associate professor of church music and worship at Candler School of Theology, Emory University in Atlanta, GA. He is also the executive editor of the African American Church Music Series published by GIA Publications, Inc. of Chicago, IL, and has served as co-director of the annual Hampton University Ministers’ and Musicians’ Conference since 2000.
James Abbington talked to the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship about his use of Psalms for All Seasons. Watch Video
James Abbington is associate professor of church music and worship at Candler School of Theology, Emory University in Atlanta, GA. He is also the executive editor of the African American Church Music Series published by GIA Publications, Inc. of Chicago, IL, and has served as co-director of the annual Hampton University Ministers’ and Musicians’ Conference since 2000.
Endorsement from Kimberly Bracken Long
Five stars is not enough to rate this excellent resource, edited by some of the brightest musical and liturgical minds in today's church. The most comprehensive psalter ever published, Psalms for All Seasons includes musical settings of all 150 psalms, most with multiple offerings in a wide range of musical styles. Worship planners will discover both responsorial and metrical settings, from chant to a hip-hop-inspired work; composers come from around the globe and from every era of Christian music. Some psalms have ten or more settings to choose from. The psalms are also arranged for corporate reading. Performance notes and psalm prayers are included as well.
Don't delay in adding this exceptional collection to your library! If your congregation is already singing the psalms, you will be utterly delighted by the range of settings. If your congregation does not sing the psalms, you will be eager to introduce the practice. These psalms can be sung for a variety of purposes--as psalms, hymns, calls to prayer, prayers of confession, and so forth. They be sung whole congregations, or led by cantors, choirs, children, or youth. The accompaniments are fulsome yet approachable, so that musicians of all levels will be able to comfortably use the book.
The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Faith Alive Resources have provided numerous invaluable publications--this one may be the best one yet.
Kimberly Bracken Long
Assistant Professor of Worship
Columbia Theological Seminary
Five stars is not enough to rate this excellent resource, edited by some of the brightest musical and liturgical minds in today's church. The most comprehensive psalter ever published, Psalms for All Seasons includes musical settings of all 150 psalms, most with multiple offerings in a wide range of musical styles. Worship planners will discover both responsorial and metrical settings, from chant to a hip-hop-inspired work; composers come from around the globe and from every era of Christian music. Some psalms have ten or more settings to choose from. The psalms are also arranged for corporate reading. Performance notes and psalm prayers are included as well.
Don't delay in adding this exceptional collection to your library! If your congregation is already singing the psalms, you will be utterly delighted by the range of settings. If your congregation does not sing the psalms, you will be eager to introduce the practice. These psalms can be sung for a variety of purposes--as psalms, hymns, calls to prayer, prayers of confession, and so forth. They be sung whole congregations, or led by cantors, choirs, children, or youth. The accompaniments are fulsome yet approachable, so that musicians of all levels will be able to comfortably use the book.
The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Faith Alive Resources have provided numerous invaluable publications--this one may be the best one yet.
Kimberly Bracken Long
Assistant Professor of Worship
Columbia Theological Seminary
