(1) Thus it was his habit that, upon returning from the harvest, he would give himself to u2018prayer, meditation and psalmody until his thoughts were re-established in their previous order.u2019(2) these books offer a useful collection of psalmody(3) these books offer a useful collection of psalmody(4) psalmody is common to all the Churches and is acceptable in those few Churches where hymns are not(5) After the greeting, psalmody took the place of the Introit and the later Gradual.(6) Additional material found in certain psalters includes refrains used for antiphonal psalmody and appendices containing canticles or other sacred writings.(7) Four volumes deal with different kinds of material in the Old Testament: narrative, prophecy, poetry / psalmody , wisdom and law.(8) David's authority now stood behind the role of the Levites and the use of psalmody in worship.(9) And Mary's song, the Magnificat, sung in response to her visit with her relative Elizabeth (which is the alternative psalmody for today), becomes the archetypal psalm of faith.(10) Christian plainchant offers melodic settings of varying complexity for the Ordinary and Proper texts of their parent rites, which may consist of psalmody and other scriptural texts or freely composed hymnody.(11) Exclusive psalmodists claim that God nowhere authorizes uninspired hymns. The conclusion that uninspired hymns are forbidden follows naturally.(12) Despite these efforts to rely on wall-to-wall ditties, psalmodic chant still figures prominently in the Weekday liturgy.(13) Noteworthy, however, is the fact that the Apostles' Creed was frequently recited in Puritan worship services, an act that most exclusive Psalmodists consider a violation of the regulative principle.(14) Certain psalmodic chants also became subject to purely musical elaboration, whether through polyphony (in the Latin West) or kalophonia (in the Byzantine East).(15) Malcolm Watts argues his case fully and strongly, but ultimately too many questions remain - in particular, whether Ephesians 5: 19 and Colossians 3: 16 can bear the weight that exclusive psalmodists seek to place on them.(16) In the Mass, the chants of the Ordinary are all non-psalmodic and those of the Proper are psalmodic .
