St. Martin's Psalter

The Revised Common Lectionary - Years A, B and C
based on Hymn Tunes & Other Familiar Melodies

How can St. Martin’s Psalter enhance your congregation’s worship?

  • Has your parish recently switched to the Revised Common Lectionary and are you looking for resources?
  • Has your congregation been struggling to chant the Psalms, and needing something more practical?
  • Has your choir been chanting the Psalms for years while your congregation sits idly in the pews?
  • Has your choir or congregation been chanting the Psalms, but would like something new?
  • Have Psalms not been sung by your choir or congregation?

If you answered “Yes” to any of the questions above, St. Martin’s Psalter may be for you.

The reason St. Martin’s Psalter is so practical and sing-able is because the music is based upon hymns and other familiar melodies. It can be adapted to sung by a cantor, the choir or the congregation in any number of combinations. The Psalter was developed by a 30-year veteran in church music who has served full-time with Episcopal, Lutheran and Catholic churches, part-time with Presbyterian and American Baptist churches, and who thoroughly understands congregational song and assembly singing.

The new pointing system, tested for ten years in Lutheran and Episcopal parishes and a seminary, is very intuitive and easy to sight-read. Both choirs and congregations will find the accents and phrases fall naturally in the right places. Clergy and church musicians will find their congregations chanting the Psalms with as much enthusiasm as they would sing a well-known hymn, due to their familiarity with the tunes.

FOR EPISCOPALIANS

Carl Daw and Kevin Hacket’s Hymntune Psalter has enjoyed tremendous use and popularity since it was released by Church Publishing in 1998. Thomas Pavlechko actually began his hymn-based Psalter in 1994. After ten years of testing, it was published in book form by St. James Music Press in 2004. The Psalter is now available on SJMP.com.

St. Martin’s Psalter is based on the Psalms in The Revised Common Lectionary and includes both Ecumenical and specifically Episcopal options offered in that Lectionary. Different than the Daw/Hacket Psalter, St. Martin’s Psalter matches antiphons with hymn-based psalm tones that are a happy medium between Anglican Chant and Simplified Anglican Chant.

FOR LUTHERANS

Pavlechko thoroughly understands congregational song and assembly singing. Some of his very practical hymn-based Psalm refrains were published in Augsburg-Fortress’ first Psalter for Worship. In St. Martin’s Psalter, not only does he offer antiphons based on hymntunes and other familiar melodies, but he also includes corresponding hymn-based Psalm tones in the same meter as those originally introduced in the Lutheran Book of Worship and Lutheran Worship, and continued in Evangelical Lutheran Worship and The Lutheran Service Book. Several of his settings are included in Augsburg’s new Psalm Settings for the Church Year.

FOR ALL DENOMINATIONS

Whether you are an Episcopal Church whose professional choir has been singing Anglican Chant perfectly since 1650, a Lutheran Church whose congregation learned to chant the Psalms in the late 1970’s, a Catholic church which has been successful at introducing Gelineau or other Psalm settings, or a Methodist, Presbyterian or Baptist church who wish to be chanting the Psalms, but are not, St. Martin’s Psalter is a practical addition to your congregational service music.

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Psalm 22 (Erhalt uns Herr/Leoni) (Psalm 22) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 22 (Herzlich tut mich verlangen) (Psalm 22) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 116 (Herzlich tut mich verlangen) (Psalm 116) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 118 (Duke Street) (Psalm 118) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 84 (Adeste Fideles) (Psalm 84) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 103 (Nun Danket) (Psalm 103) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 98 (Adeste Fideles/Vom Himmel hoch) (Psalm 98) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 97 (Adeste Fideles/Vom Himmel hoch) (Psalm 97) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 89 (Veni Emmanuel) (Psalm 89) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 147 (Adeste Fideles/Vom Himmel hoch) (Psalm 147) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 111 (Nun Danket) (Psalm 111) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 85 (Veni Emmanuel) (Psalm 85) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 147 (Nun Danket) (Psalm 147) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 139 (Wie schön leuchtet/Morning Star) (Psalm 139) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 50 (Nun Danket/St. Elizabeth) (Psalm 50) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 62 (Wie schön leuchtet/Morning Star) (Psalm 62) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 47 (Duke Street) (Psalm 47) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Canticle 15 - Magnificat (Veni Emmanuel) St. Martin's Psalter Congregation, SATB find_in_page
Psalm 4 (Duke Street) (Psalm 4) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 126 (Veni Emmanuel) (Psalm 126) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Canticle 15 - Magnificat (Veni Emmanuel) St. Martin's Psalter Congregation, SATB find_in_page
Psalm 80 (Veni Emmanuel) (Psalm 80) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Song of Solomon 2:8-13 (Eventide) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Exodus 15 (Nun danket) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 107 (Nun danket) (Psalm 107) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 128 (Nun danket) (Psalm 128) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 17 (Eventide) (Psalm 17) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 45:11-18 (Eventide) (Psalm 45) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 65 (Nun danket) (Psalm 65) St. Martin's Psalter Congregation, SATB find_in_page
Psalm 119:105-112 (Eventide) (Psalm 119) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 133 (Eventide) (Psalm 133) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 124 (Nun danket) (Psalm 124) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 105 (Nun danket) (Psalm 105) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 46 (Ein feste Burg_1) (Psalm 46) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 33:1-12 (St. Anne) (Psalm 33) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 105:1-6, 16-22 (Nun danket) (Psalm 105) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 139 (Eventide) (Psalm 139) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 13 (Eventide) (Psalm 13) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 86 (Eventide) (Psalm 86) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26 (Nun danket) (Psalm 105) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 100:1-4 (St. Anne) (Psalm 100) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 123 (Eventide) (Psalm 123) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 46 (Ein Feste Burg) (Psalm 46) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 19 (St. Anne) (Psalm 19) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 106 (St. Anne) (Psalm 106) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 99 (St. Anne) (Psalm 99) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 114 (Nun danket) (Psalm 114) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 90 (St. Anne) (Psalm 90) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45 (Nun danket) (Psalm 105) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page
Psalm 116 (St. Anne) (Psalm 116) St. Martin's Psalter SATB, Congregation find_in_page