The current project drew on a very few of my earlier recordings of Genevan Psalter tunes, but it began in earnest last November, when I started to record as many of these 16th-century melodies as I could master. As of today, I have now completed my guitar performances, recordings, and uploadings of all 124 tunes of the Genevan Psalter, along with a few associated tunes, which can be enjoyed in order here.
Here is Psalm 129, which I recorded this morning:
And the last one to be added to the playlist, Psalm 132:
Listeners will perhaps not be surprised that I left the most challenging of the tunes to the end. In fact, I was far from certain that I would be able to master all of them. Some I have been able to play for years, if not decades. Others I worked up more recently, with the final tunes being performed and recorded today.
I might add that this belatedly fulfils a commitment to the Stanford Reid Trust, whose grant in 2021 was intended to allow me to add a limited number of performances of the psalm tunes to my YouTube channel—something delayed by the pandemic and illness. Instead, with permission from the Trust, I used the funds to complete my versifications of the Psalms that year, a project you can read about here.