Genevan psalm tunes in the historic shapenote tradition

[Jeremy Shipp]

From the time of Billings through the 19th century, were any of the old Genevan psalm tunes brought into the American tradition, beyond these I could find?

1. Old 42nd, aka De Beza: 
   • Christian Harmony: https://sevenshapes.sacredharpbremen.org/453t-de-beza/
   • Hesperian Harp, 1848: https://shapenote.net/berkley/426.jpg
2. Old 100th, obviously
3. Old 124th, aka Toulon?, aka Montague: 
   • Mason & Webb's National Psalmist, 1848 (roundnote): https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/VgjaKCnMRxsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=montague
   • I'm not finding any instance of Toulon prior to Lowell Mason, or anything in shapenotes.
4. Old 134th aka St. Michael? It appears not.

[Virginia Landgraf]

Genevan Psalm 124 (not the shortened TOULON) appears in the Harmonia Sacra as WILTON, #301 in the 26th edition. The text is Isaac Watts's setting of Psalm 115, "Not to our names, thou only Just and True," erroneously credited (as text) to Louis Bourgeois (!). The music credit reads, "In Pseaumes octante trois, 1551."

Genevan Psalm 21 appears in the Missouri Harmony as PSALM FORTY-SIXTH, #91 in the 2005 edition. The text is Isaac Watts's "I'll praise my maker with my breath." The music credit reads, "Genevan Psalter, 1551 [next line] adapted Select Harmony, 1778."

The late Ted Mercer was interested in possibly using Anne Heider's edition of Claude Le Jeune's four-part settings of the Genevan Psalms for shape-note singing. The plan ran aground on the problem that the four parts were hard to map onto treble-alto-tenor-bass.

Ginny Landgraf

Chicago, IL

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