Foundations Psalter

SermonAudio has recently published an extensive version of the 1650 Scottish Psalter complete with the texts of all 150 Psalms and multiple possible tunes for each psalm. As I've observed many times before, the vast majority of texts in the 1650 are in common or ballad metre (8 6 8 6) or its double counterpart. Thus one can easily mix and match the texts and tunes. This is the origin of the well-known split-leaf psalters used in Scotland and elsewhere.

This new edition is called the Foundations Psalter whose website can be found here. Once you are in the site, you will see four introductory paragraphs. Below this you will see two tabs, one for the "Psalter" and one for the "Psalter Tunes." If you choose the first tab, you will see each of the Psalms listed by number. Click on an individual Psalm and you will find a playable organ rendition of the tune followed by two tabs, labelled Lyrics and Bible. If you stay on the Lyrics tab, you will see the text from the Scottish Psalter. If you click on Bible, you will see the King James Version's prose translation of the same psalm.

Back to the top and at the far right you will see the words "Change Tune." Click on them and you will see a list of several tunes in the same metre. Clicking on one of the tunes will bring up the brief organ performance of that tune.

If you return to the first page you will see the words "Psalter" and "Psalter Tunes" again. Click on Psalter Tunes and you will see an alphabetical list of the names of the tunes. At the far right you will see for each tune the words "See Psalms." Clicking on those words will turn up a list of Psalms to be sung to the tune.

I've not seen the printed volume of this collection, so I can only speculate on what it looks like inside. However, the website is effectively the digital equivalent of a split-leaf psalter, a great resource for those churches that continue to sing the Psalms from the 1650 collection.