28 Psalms (1549) | Clément Janequin

Premier livre contenant XXVIII pseaulmes de David traduictz en rithme francoise par Clément Marot, à quatre parties, en quatre livres (DuChemin, 1549) [JJ448a] F:Pn Rés. Vmc. 48 (3) (S); F:Om Rés C 3459 (C, B); Tenor from Beringen brothers, Pseaulmes cinquante, Lyon 1548 (LY48).

The 28 Psalms mark the first music publishing venture by Parisian printer Nicolas Du Chemin, and comes at the time of Janequin’s move from Angers to Paris. No complete copy of this work exists, but the missing tenor part is without any question identical with the melodies published by the Beringen brothers in Lyon in 1548 and 1549. (This is true for all the settings except Psalm 43, where Janequin has placed the melody in the superius. Consequently, the tenor line in the transcription of Psalm 43 is a reconstruction.) The psalm settings of 1549 are discussed in Chapter 7 of Clément Janequin: French Composer at the Dawn of Music Publishing. See also: “28 Psalms of 1549: notes on the transcriptions.”

LMN 267 (Psalm 1) Qui au conseil/Beatus vir

LMN 268 (Psalm 2) Pourquoy font bruit/Quare fremuerunt

LMN 269 (Psalm 3) O Seigneur que de gens/Domine quid mult

LMN 270 (Psalm 4) Quand je t’invoque/Cum invocarem

LMN 271 (Psalm 5) Aux parolles/Verba mea

LMN 272 (Psalm 6) Ne vueilles pas/Domine ne in furore

LMN 273 (Psalm 7) Mon Dieu j’ay en toy/Domine Deus meus

LMN 274 (Psalm 8) O Notre Dieu/Domine Dominus

LMN 275 (Psalm 9) De tout mon coeur/Confitebor tibi

LMN 276 (Psalm 10) Dont vient cela/Domine utquid

LMN 277 (Psalm 11) Veu que du tout/In domino confido

LMN 278 (Psalm 12) Donne secours/Saluum mefac