Settings of individual penitential psalms have been written by many composers.

Galileo was ordered to read the seven penitential psalms once a week for the next three years.

The penitential psalms are sung, and at the end of each a candle is extinguished.

The libretto is based on Psalm 130, one of the penitential psalms.

Then, he laid down his head, and asked the attendant priests to chant the penitential psalms.

G minor is used extensively in the cantata, which sets one of the penitential psalms.

They recited prayers and chanted the penitential psalms all along the route.

But only the penitential psalms and the Articles.'

Bach set a German text based on Psalm 51, one of the penitential psalms.

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Four were known as 'penitential psalms' by St. Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century.

Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Hours specific to the days of the week (ff.

The first was Sir Thomas Wyatt, who in around 1540 made verse versions of the six penitential Psalms.

His David is a narcissist, opportunist and realist before he is a prophet and author of the penitential Psalms.

It often appeared in books of hours, usually at the start of the Hours of the Cross or Penitential Psalms.

The three-part section includes settings of metrical versions of the seven penitential psalms, in an archaic style which reflects the influence of the psalm collections.

Before the suppression of the minor orders and tonsure in 1972 by Paul VI, the seven penitential psalms were assigned to new clerics after having been tonsured.

Psalm 130 (Septuagint numbering: Psalm 129), traditionally De profundis from its Latin incipit, is one of the Penitential psalms.

In most liturgies for Ash Wednesday, the Penitential psalms are read; Psalm 51 (LXX Psalm 50) is especially associated with this day.

Prayers were made and dedicated to a particular deity as votive offerings, similar in style to the penitential psalms in the Hebrew scriptures that express remorse and thanksgiving for mercy.

And when the queen made no answer, they went down again slowly to the garden, and kneeling one at the head, the other at the foot of the dead man, they began to recite penitential psalms in a low voice.

Translations of the penitential psalms were undertaken by some of the greatest poets in Renaissance England, including Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and Sir Philip Sidney.

It was accordingly decreed that he should be condemned to imprisonment in the Holy Office during the pleasure of the Papal authorities, and that he should recite once a week for three years the seven Penitential Psalms.

Later in the 16th century Orlande de Lassus wrote an elaborate setting as part of his Penitential Psalms, and Palestrina, Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Carlo Gesualdo also wrote settings.

To her joy, she discovers that she can relieve him from the task of reciting the seven Penitential Psalms which had been imposed as a Penance:-- "I began to do this a while ago," she writes, "and it gives me much pleasure.