Chichester Psalms is an extended choral composition in three movements by Leonard Bernstein for boy treble or countertenor, choir and orchestra. The text was arranged by the composer from the Book of
First page of the vocal score, Boosey & Hawkes edition
The Book of Psalms, also known as the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh called Ketuvim, and a book of the Old Testament.
Chichester Psalms
…composition in three movements by Leonard Bernstein for boy treble or countertenor, choir and orchestra. The text was arranged by the composer from the Book of Psalms in the original Hebrew. Part 1 uses Psalms 100 and 108, Part 2 uses 2 and 23, and Part 3 uses 131 and 133. Bernstein scored the work for a reduced…
An 1880 Baxter process illustration of Psalm 23, from the Religious Tract Society's magazine The Sunday at Home
David composing the Psalms, Paris Psalter, 10th century
Psalm 11 in the ninth-century Utrecht Psalter, where the illustration of the text is often literal
David Playing the Harp by Jan de Bray, 1670