Calvin endorsed only singing of metrical psalm texts, only in unison, only a cappella, with no harmonization and no accompanying instruments of any kind.

The harmonic language of "Chichester Psalms," a setting of psalm texts for full orchestra, chorus and boy soprano soloist, is spiked with astringent dissonance.

After the Second Vatican Council (which also permitted the use of vernacular languages in the liturgy), longer psalm texts were reintroduced into the Mass, during the readings.

The challenge inherent in this project is that the commonality of the shared psalm texts is easily overshadowed by the huge musical differences.

He also compiled chants and psalm texts to make the St. Paul Cathedral Psalter.

Hymnals evolved from psalters, in that hymns are songs for the congregation and choir to sing, but go beyond metrical recasting of only psalm texts.

An oddity, it consists of much of Mozart's incomplete Mass in C minor (K. 427/417a), with Latin psalm texts replacing the Latin liturgy, and two new arias.

There is a grim severity in Stravinsky's setting of these Latin psalm texts with their beseeching calls for forgiveness in the face of death and the almost frantic shouts of praise.

This was followed two years later by Tristiae Remedium, with texts assembled by the Reverend Thomas Myriell mainly using psalm texts in the English language.

The central movement includes the choir shouting and screaming the psalm texts like a baying mob.