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I found it very helpful to use a devotional aid like Daily Readings from Calvin on the Psalms or Spurgeon's The Treasury of David to guide me through the Psalms and I sang them as I went through them - you end up studying and singing all of the Psalms which was very rewarding. If you have a family, this is a very useful approach for family worship.We don't really sing the psalms in the church I go to so are there practical resources you'd give for singing the psalter in private devotions?
If you use the 1650 Psalter app (free on Apple/Google Play) it also has a link to Brown's notes.If you want a Psalter that includes meditations/devotions on the Psalms, Grange Press has put together a really beautiful Psalter. A bit more expensive than the Psalters I linked previously but this one is worth the extra cost both for the extra content and the lovely design.
This link has the music for the Genevan. All these used for every European language. No need to be limited to 17th century Scotland. Even music majors at Dort will tell you the tunes are "too hard to learn", but that is not true, if you just play it a few times or read the music, you can learn it.
Music & Lyrics - The Genevan Psalter
A center for resources and information relating to the Genevan Psalter, including articles, sheet music, recordings, books, websites and metrical translations based on it.genevanpsalter.com
Click on any of the 150 and you will find
Audio
Sheet Music
Engl. Lyrics---modern CanRef or other modern Engl.
The meters of the Genevan tunes may not be in a 1-to-1 correspondance to the original, but they are close enough to work in Hebrew. I very recently figured out how to sing Psalms 1, 2 and 110 to the Genevan tunes in my native tounge, which is incidentally also the language the sweet psalmist himself wrote them in. In common meter tunes it would have never worked.Nobody in the group except me has ever sung the Genevan tunes. I am far from a good singer, but with the aid of that website, have had zero problem teaching them. If Ozark hillbillies can put up with an Italian like me singing French-written tunes that are most commonly sung by Dutch people, perhaps it's proof that the Psalter is not ethnic. There are modern Genevan Psalter translations available in Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and I'm trying to get Korean copies since my mother-in-law speaks no English and we're probably eventually going to have some Korean wives of American soldiers at Fort Leonard Wood.
I'm not sure the 3 pslaters you listed are equally good translations. The current RPCNA at times seems like an NIV (New Inferior Version) psalter. But I agree it is better than the 1912 or anything by Isaac Watts and his Psalms of David Imitated.The Scottish, Geneva, RPCNA psalters are certainly the real thing: teachers will refer to the Psalter text as the word of God, very different from the 1912 selections.