Editing Psalms (section)

==Psalms set to music==
===Multiple psalms as a single composition===
Psalms have often been set as part of a larger work. The psalms feature large in settings of [[Vespers]], including those by [[Claudio Monteverdi]], [[Antonio Vivaldi]], [[Marc-Antoine Charpentier]] (84 settings H.149 - H.232) and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], who wrote such settings as part of their responsibilities as church musicians. Psalms are inserted in [[Requiem (music)|Requiem]] compositions, such as Psalm 126 in ''[[A German Requiem (Brahms)|A German Requiem]]'' of [[Johannes Brahms]] and Psalms 130 and 23 in [[John Rutter]]'s ''[[Requiem (Rutter)|Requiem]]''.
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* {{lang|pl|Melodie na psałterz polski}} by [[Mikołaj Gomółka]]—1580
* {{lang|la|[[Penitential Psalms|Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales]]}} (6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, 143) by [[Orlande de Lassus]]—1584
* ''[[Psalmen Davids]]'' (1619), [[Symphoniae sacrae I]] (1629) and ''[[Becker Psalter]]'' (1661) by [[Heinrich Schütz]]
* ''[[Chandos Anthems]]'' by [[George Frideric Handel]]—1717–18
* ''[[Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Mendelssohn)|Zwei englisch Psalmen]]'' (1842), ''Sieben Psalmen nach Lobwasser'' (1843), ''[[Elijah (oratorio)|Elijah]]'' (1846), and ''[[Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Mendelssohn)|Drei Psalmen]]'' (1849) by [[Felix Mendelssohn]]
* ''Eighteen Liturgical Psalms'' by [[Louis Lewandowski]]—1879
* ''[[Biblické písně]]'' by [[Antonín Dvořák]]—1894
* {{lang|fr|[[Le Roi David]]}} by [[Arthur Honegger]]—1921
* ''[[Symphony of Psalms]]'' (38, 39, 150) by [[Igor Stravinsky]]—1930
* ''[[Chichester Psalms]]'' by [[Leonard Bernstein]]—1965
* ''[[Tehillim (Reich)|Tehillim]]'' by [[Steve Reich]]—1981
* ''Four Psalms'' (114, 126, 133, 137) by [[John Harbison]]—1998

===Individual psalm settings===
There are many settings of individual psalms. One of the better known examples is Gregorio Allegri's ''[[Miserere mei (Allegri)|Miserere mei]]'', a ''[[falsobordone]]'' setting of [[Psalm 51]] ("Have mercy upon me, O God").<ref>{{cite book|title=The Rough Guide to Classical Music|edition=5th|publisher=Rough Guides Ltd|year=2010|chapter=Gregorio Allegri|page=9|isbn=978-1-84836-476-9|editor-last1=Staines|editor-first1=Joe|chapter-url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Rough_Guide_to_Classical_Music/g1ga2hNiiAgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA9&printsec=frontcover}}</ref> Settings of individual psalms by later composers are also frequent: they include works from composers such as [[George Frideric Handel]], [[Felix Mendelssohn]], [[Franz Liszt]], [[Johannes Brahms]] and [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]. Psalms also feature in more modern musical movements and popular genres.