30 Sept 2025

At last: a complete Genevan Psalter playlist

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.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

A welcome resource! You don't give the names of the tunes. Are the names those listed in the Canadian Reformed Church's 2014 Book of Praise?

David Koyzis said...

Would it be helpful if I were to list the French names of the tunes? I could easily so that.