Niet-ritmisch oude psalmen zingen bij een orgel, wat is daarvan de magie?

With organist Marco den Toom and psalm expert Jaco van der Knijff. It is a typically Dutch phenomenon: singing psalms together around an organ. In Katwijk, thousands of men even gather annually for this purpose. How did these old psalms become so important to Dutch Protestants? Why does one church sing them rhythmically and another in whole notes? Why do some Christians believe that only psalms may be sung in church—even if Christ is not mentioned in them? And why do they seem to be slowly disappearing almost everywhere when hymns and contemporary worship songs are added to the repertoire? Jaco is a theologian and hymnologist. He explains how Calvin in Geneva decided to have the congregation sing in their own language, how that yielded 124 unique melodies, and how the versification of 1773 was a state project that was introduced everywhere within a generation. Contemporary worship or hymns? No church song sings as well as psalms, Marco knows from his years of experience as an organist. Preferably non-rhythmic. He accompanies the thousands of men who come to Katwijk every year to sing psalms. And what is wrong with Psalm 114? That psalm is said to be completely unsingable. But is that really true? Jaco van der Knijff wrote ‘Ons psalmboek’ about singing psalms in the Reformed tradition. debanier.nl/ons-psalmboek