Psalmen Davids
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Psalmen Davids is a collection of sacred choral music, settings mostly of psalms in German by Heinrich Schütz, who had studied the Venetian polychoral style with Giovanni Gabrieli. Book 1 was printed
Title page of the first edition, 1619
Psalm 1
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Psalm 1 is the first psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in the English King James Version with "Blessed is the man"; Alexander Kirkpatrick argued that it formed "an appropriate prologue" to the wh
Large Beatus initial from the Leiden Psalter of Saint Louis, 1190s
A metrical version of Psalm 1 from 1628. The melody begins on the tonic note of a natural minor scale.