The Psalter (3): The Geneva Psalter

The Wittenberg Hymnal was comprised of songs that were inspired by the Psalms and other parts of the Bible, but they were not as close word-for-word as possible. Nor did this songbook have a song and tune for every Psalm in the Bible.   When John Calvin fled to Strasburg, Germany in 1538, he set out to make a psalter of his own. He wrote a few songs but quickly learned his talents did not lie in poetry and song writing. He turned to a French court poet Clement Marot, who had already written...