Last week I made a most interesting discovery. There is a woman in Japan who is writing tunes for the Psalms in Hebrew. She started publishing them on YouTube about the same time I started working on tunes here. She has written more than a hundred. Only a few of them are the type I would use for my collection, but I hope to include a few of them. Don't ask me how many I have written--I haven't the slightest idea. Nowhere near a hundred. I have many starts, but few finishes.
I have spent hours and hours on the internet looking for Psalms suitable for congregational singing. Some are too complicated, some are too simple, some are too jumpy or jazzy. I did find a good tune for Psalm 100, written by an Englishman named Charles Kensington Salaman.
Here is a link to Psalm 115. I think it goes through the whole psalm twice, and then finishes with verse 9.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=567IHfwCb4I
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