Cantad, Naciones, al Señor

Author: William Kethe

William Kethe (b. Scotland [?], d. Dorset England, c. 1594). Although both the time and place of Kethe's birth and death are unknown, scholars think he was a Scotsman. A Protestant, he fled to the continent during Queen Mary's persecution in the late 1550s. He lived in Geneva for some time but traveled to Basel and Strasbourg to maintain contact with other English refugees. Kethe is thought to be one of the scholars who translated and published the English-language Geneva Bible (1560), a version favored over the King James Bible by the Pilgrim fathers. The twenty-five psalm versifications Kethe prepared for the Anglo-Genevan Psalter of 1561 were also adopted into the Scottish Psalter of 1565. His versification of Psalm 100 (All People that… Go to person page >

Translator: Lorenzo Alvarez

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Text Information

First Line: Cantad, naciones, al Señor
Title: Cantad, Naciones, al Señor
Author: William Kethe
Translator: Lorenzo Alvarez
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: Spanish
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

OLD HUNDREDTH

This tune is likely the work of the composer named here, but has also been attributed to others as shown in the instances list below. According to the Handbook to the Baptist Hymnal (1992), Old 100th first appeared in the Genevan Psalter, and "the first half of the tune contains phrases which may ha…

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Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 2 of 2)

Cantos del Pueblo de Dios = Songs of the People of God (2nd ed.) #170

El Himnario Bautista de la Gracia #16

Include 1 pre-1979 instance
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