Two stanzas should be enough for people to learn the tune, I hope. That's what these recordings are for: to teach you the tunes so you can sing them. So, let's get singing! :-)

1:39 is the recording time? How's that for providence 😅

Well, I should confess.... I did that to make fun of my choir directors, who all ask for ridiculous pronunciations like, "Don't say "birth", say "buth"; don't say "it", say "eet" Have you ever sung in a choir? It's silly. I usually just ignore them, but that evening I had just come home from choir practice irritated and I thought, "I'll show her! You asked for it!" It was really petty, and I regret it. I should redo it.

​@@michaelowens5394 😂 I have sung in choir, and those have annoyed me as well, probably why I found this so amusing!

Good ear!

I can get them for you. Contact me through one of my websites and I'll email them to you.

Well, that's exciting to hear! Perhaps this is the first audio recording. Wow.

Very sorry, I don't have the ability to record David Erb's Psalm settings because they require a piano. I refer folks to Erb's own recordings, also free on KZbin. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXLOkoyXgMtmZ80si=ieRH7UgnBp9dougm Someday perhaps I'll make SATB arrangements of his music in the Treasury. And then I'll record those because no one else will. My main reason for recording songs is to show you what they sound like. If someone else has already done it better than I could, I have no reason to.

@@michaelowens5394 Well, you have done other recordings of his music, and as I think they are of better quality than his, I prefer to listen to your versions, and you do have a reason record your own version! But what's SATB?

Thanks! I sure appreciate the compliments. :-) SATB means Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass. It's shorthand for "four-part harmony". I have recorded all of David Erb's music which I have arranged for four-part harmony. I will eventually arrange and record all the ones in the Treasury. But for now the only Treasury Erb's I've recorded are the ones included in SATB (Psalms 122, 125, 131, 133 & Fear of the Lord). The rest (24, 29, 82, 93, 117, 121, 127, 134, 149, Beatitudes, Yet I Will Rejoice), I'll do eventually. Meanwhile, I hope you listen to his recordings enough so that you can sing them yourself. That, after all, is the goal of my recordings and of his.

Possible, yes. Is there anything about my recordings which would make them superior to the many great recordings of LSB 420 and 666 already free on KZbin? If so, I'll do them. If not, I need to allocate my time wisely between the songs I'd like to record. Thousands of songs have NO recordings available.

@ I just like the hymns. I haven’t found many good recordings of O little flock fear not the foe. And of course your recordings are superior, you can do what you think is best.

Sure appreciate the praise! My recordings are pretty utilitarian; these are more fun to listen to: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6W8iYKJoNyaeMksi=g_qwdx98-GGVUQNu&t=86 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp6spmd-a9WCaaMsi=7SDJv6zhr7O__NRs kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJysYWupZrlmocUsi=0p6wtz_06oHnZyGM And most fun of all: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHvTd4Whq71ma6ssi=vq9m6ZNTLT8Lvub6

Thanks! It was a rather daring decision. Folks, this harmony really is easier to sing than it appears!

Good timing; I had just sat down to decide what to record. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmfIlnaIpNWpmJo Yes, you can put requests anywhere. I don't get many comments, so I'll see it no matter where it is.

@@michaelowens5394 Oh man! You didn't need to do a whole new recording! You could have just posted the one you already recorded. Thank you though!

The one I made in 2005 was embarrassingly bad. It was overdue for an upgrade.

I'm glad you said that. I've been promoting this book for decades but nobody seems to want it. :-}

I hope this recording will help people learn the tune. Once you know it, you're welcome to sing it at any tempo you like. One of the glories of the magnificent tunes in the Genevan Psalter, is that they are effective at many different tempi. Over the centuries they have been enjoyed fast, slow, very fast and very slow. Quicker tempi reveal their rhythmic vitality, slower tempi reveal their ethereal grandeur. Slow tempo: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6uTlIOuapKfnNksi=Vlq3aTnJEB49WxkW Very slow tempo: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXrKmWCqabWtodksi=WAa9GH519TNLNuIQ&t=43

Thank you! Yes, most of what I record would take more than usual repetition to learn. But people can learn it effortlessly just by listening. I'm not sure what it means to read solfege. I thought that was a method of instruction. Can someone enlighten me?

You will hear it at a slower tempo if you sing it! :-) That's what these recordings are for: to teach you the tunes so you can sing them. So, let's get singing!

Yes. Contact me through one of my websites, and I can send you any PDF or MP3 that I have made.

I sang it an octave lower than written, as though it were a tenor line. Best I can do.

You will hear the whole Psalm if you sing it! :-) That's what these recordings are for: to teach you the tunes so you can sing them. So, let's get singing!

@@michaelowens5394 Would you be ok with me ripping the audio from your channel and repackaging some of your psalms to help others learn the tunes?

Yes, please do! Thanks for asking!

Two reasons. I have limited resources, so I just make samples, usually up to 4 stanzas, to help you learn the tune. If I could earn money with my recordings, I might record all the stanzas of everything. But also, whenever I have recorded all the stanzas of something, I find myself getting tired of hearing myself sing it after 4 stanzas. If I'm tired of it, I imagine other people will be too. But of course, you can include vv.12 & 13 if you sing it! :-) That's what these recordings are for: to teach you the tunes so you can sing them. So, let's get singing!

Stay tuned! I've found a hidden cataract of Welsh hymn tunes I want to post. Scarcely a dozen are widely known, but searching through many old Welsh hymnals has turned up nearly 500 unique hymn tunes from Wales, 1800-1920. Someday soon I hope to upload them all at WelshHymnTunes.com. But it's not ready yet. Meanwhile I've included 51 Welsh tunes in the Treasury hymnal.

I make them. Drawing from the thousands of hymn tune sample recordings I've made since 2002, I'm making videos using the printed music that I was singing from. Is that what you mean?

Thank you! The hymn tune genre is a genre of miniatures. A hymn tune needs to make its whole impact in under a minute, usually under 30 seconds, and stand up to an unusual degree of repetition. It's also one of the few types of music made specifically for non-musicians.

Sorry; corrected. Please point out any other inconsistencies you find!

You're right. Good ear.

He didn't. I wrote the music.

@@michaelowens5394 well, hats off to you then!