Editing Psalms (section)

====Anglican usage====
[[Anglican chant]] is a method of singing prose versions of the Psalms.

In the early 17th century, when the [[King James Bible]] was introduced, the metrical arrangements by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins were also popular and were provided with printed tunes. This version and the ''[[Tate and Brady|New Version of the Psalms of David]]'' by Tate and Brady produced in the late seventeenth century (see article on [[Metrical psalter]]) remained the normal congregational way of singing psalms in the Church of England until well into the nineteenth century.

In Great Britain, the 16th-century [[Myles Coverdale|Coverdale]] psalter still lies at the heart of daily worship in [[Cathedral]]s and many [[parish church]]es. The new [[Common Worship]] service book has a companion psalter in modern English.

The version of the psalter in the American [[Book of Common Prayer]] prior to the 1979 edition is the Coverdale psalter. The Psalter in the American Book of Common Prayer of 1979 is a new translation, with some attempt to keep the rhythms of the Coverdale psalter.