Scottish Hymnody

Featured Hymns & Tunes:

The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want (Ps. 23)

BROTHER JAMES’ AIR
CRIMOND
DUNDEE
LONDON NEW

see also:

Hark the glad sound! the Saviour comes
While humble shepherds watched their flocks

Scottish Authors & Composers:

Horatius Bonar
Elizabeth Clephane
William Chatterton Dix
David Evans [LUCERNA LAUDONIAE]
Alexander Ewing
Robert Grant
John Hatton [DUKE STREET]
William Kethe
William Paton Mackay [Revive us again]
Robert Robinson

Collections of Psalms & Hymns (Selected):

The Forme of Prayers . . . with the Whole Psalmes of Dauid in English Meter (1564)

The Wode Psalter (1566): University of Edinburgh Special Collections

Ane Compendious Buik of Godly and Spirituall Sangis (ca. 1567)

The CL Psalmes of Dauid in Prose and Meeter (1611)

The CL Psalmes of David in Meeter (1615)

The Psalmes of David in Prose and Metre (1625)

The CL Psalmes of David in Scots Meter (1632): Google Books

The Psalmes of David in Prose and Meeter (1635): Archive.org

Zachary Boyd, The Psalmes of David in Meeter

(1646): PDF (2nd ed.)
(1646): PDF (3rd ed.)
(1648): PDF

The Psalms of David in Meeter (1650): PDF

Patrick Simson, Spiritual Songs, or Holy Poems (1685/6)

Translations and Paraphrases of Sacred Scripture

(1745): PDF
(1751): PDF
(1756): PDF
(1765): PDF
(1771): PDF
(1781): PDF

Sacred Songs and Hymns on Various Passages of Scripture (1794)
Synod of Relief Church

Hymns Adapted for the Worship of God (1833)
Synod of Relief Church

Hymn Book of the United Presbyterian Church (1852)

Evangelical Union Hymnbook (1856)

Hymns for Public Worship
Church of Scotland

1st ed. (1861)
Rev. ed. (1864)

Hymn Tune Book
Church of Scotland

1st ed. (1862)
Enlarged (1865)
Psalm and Hymn Tune Book (1868): Archive.org
Rev. & Enl. (1872)

Scottish Hymnal
Church of Scotland

Words only (1870?): Archive.org
with Tunes, ed. W. Monk (1872): Archive.org
with Appendix (1884): Archive.org [1886]
Scottish Church Music (1891): Archive.org [Companion]

Psalm Versions, Paraphrases, and Hymns (1873) [words]
Scottish Psalmody (1873) [tunes]
Free Church of Scotland

The Presbyterian Hymnal
United Presbyterian Church

Words only (1876): Archive.org
with Tunes (1877): Archive.org

Presbyterian Psalter with Accompanying Tunes (1878)
United Presbyterian Church

Evangelical Union Hymnal (1878)

The Free Church Hymn Book (1882): Archive.org

The Scottish Psalter (1883): Archive.org
Free Church of Scotland

Church Hymnary (1898): Archive.org

The Hymns and Hymn Writers of the CH, with Suppl. (1911): Archive.org
The Music of the Church Hymnary (1901): Archive.org

Church Hymnary, Rev. Ed. (1927)

Handbook to the Church Hymnary, with Suppl. (1935)

The Scottish Psalter 1929, Prose Ed. / Metre Ed.

Hymnal for Scotland (1950)

St. Andrew Hymnal (1964)

Dunblane Praises I (1965)
Dunblane Praises II (1967)
New Songs for the Church (1969)

Church Hymnary, 3rd ed. (1973)

Handbook to the Church Hymnary (1979)

Hymns for a Day (1982)

Songs of God’s People (1988)

Common Ground (1998)

Sing Psalms (2003)

Church Hymnary, 4th ed. (2005)

Related Resources:

Neil Livingston, The Scottish Metrical Psalter of A.D. 1635 (Glasgow: Maclure & Macdonald, 1864): Archive.org

David Laing, An Account of the Scottish Psalter of A.D. 1566 (Edinburgh: Neill and Co., 1871): Archive.org

J.W. MacMeeken, History of the Scottish Metrical Psalms (Glasgow: M’Culloch & Co., 1872): Archive.org

Henry Alexander Glass, The Story of the Psalters (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1888): Archive.org

James Mearns, “Scottish Hymnody,” A Dictionary of Hymnology (London: J. Murray, 1892), pp. 1020–1033: HathiTrust

Thomas Young, The Metrical Psalms and Paraphrases: A Short Sketch of Their History (London, A. & C. Black, 1909), p. 77: Archive.org

Millar Patrick, Four Centuries of Scottish Psalmody (Oxford: University Press, 1949).

Maurice Frost, English & Scottish Psalm & Hymn Tunes, ca. 1543–1677 (Oxford: University Press, 1953): WorldCat

Hilda Hutchison, The St. Andrews Psalter: Transcription and Critical Study of Thomas Wode’s Psalter, 2 vols., dissertation (University of Edinburgh, 1957): Online

Kirby Rogers, An Index to Maurice Frost’s English & Scottish Psalm & Hymn Tunes (Ann Arbor: The Association, 1967): WorldCat

John Purser, Scotland’s Music (Edinburgh: Mainstream Press, 1992).

Beth Quitslund, The Reformation in Rhyme: Sternhold, Hopkins, and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547–1603 (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008): WorldCat

Graham D.S. Deans, “‘Race Shall Thy Works Praise Unto Race’: the Development of Metrical Psalmody in Scotland.” The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Occasional Paper, Third Series, No. 5 (2011).

Timothy Duguid, Metrical Psalmody in Print and Practice: English “Singing Psalms” and Scottish “Psalm Buiks,” c. 1547–1640 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014): Amazon

J. Michael Morgan, “English language metrical psalters of the sixteenth century,” Hymns and Hymnody, vol. 2 (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2019), pp. 64–77.

Singing the Reformation: The World of Reformation Britain As Seen and Heard in the Wode Psalter, University of Edinburgh (2011): http://www.wode.div.ed.ac.uk/index.html

Nicholas Temperley, et al., “Scottish Psalter,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology: http://www.hymnology.co.uk/s/scottish-psalter

Ian Campbell Bradley, “Scottish Hymnody,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology: http://www.hymnology.co.uk/s/scottish-hymnody