While the German people, under the leadership of Luther, were singing chorales set to original religious poems, a large section of Protestantism, under the influence of John Calvin, confined itself to the singing of Psalms. To the French reformer, now preaching at Geneva, hymns were “man-made,” whereas the psalms were the inspired word of God and the only proper vehicle for the praise of God. Calvin, unlike Luther, was not a musician, and at first permitted only unison singing, unaccompanied. Part singing and instrumental accompaniment seemed to savor of the frivolous and worldly, an opinion which Calvin, however, was soon to modify. For two hundred years the Calvinistic churches on the Continent and in Britain were influenced in their worship song by the strict views of Calvin, limiting themselves to the metrical psalms and scriptural paraphrases. The German people in the meantime produced a rich treasury of original religious lyrics, contributed by some of their best poets. Psalter Tunes and Metrical Psalms in the Hymnary _Genevan Psalter_ Tunes, 1551. O Seigneur (19) Old 134th (128, 132, 616) Rendez à Dieu (306) Old 124th (354) Old 100th (594) _Scottish Psalter_, 1650. Book Five (575 to 600) with a few exceptions _New Version_, 1696, Tate and Brady. “Through all the changing scenes of life” (583) “As pants the hart for cooling streams” (586) “O come, loud anthems let us sing” (18) “While shepherds watched their flocks by night” (73-4) 8. Psalm Versions. The use of the psalms in singing, first on the Continent, then in England and Scotland, and later in America, brought forth many metrical versions of the psalter, the principal ones being the following: a. _The Genevan Psalter_, begun 1539, published complete in 1562. It was made at the request of John Calvin by Clément Marot, court poet of France, and Theodore Beza, a French scholar. It became the psalm book for the Reformation churches on the continent, and is spoken of as the most famous book of praise the Christian Church ever produced. It was issued in at least one thousand editions and translated into a number of tongues. Some of the original tunes are still in use, e.g., “Old Hundredth.” b. _The Anglo-Genevan Psalter_, Geneva, 1556. This was used by John Knox, the Scottish reformer, and his followers who fled the persecutions of “Bloody Mary,” and formed a congregation at Geneva. The book incorporated some of the Sternhold and Hopkins versions which were in use in England, and added others. c. _The Old Version_, Sternhold and Hopkins, completed in 1562. Used in England for 134 years. It is entitled, _The Whole Booke of Psalmes_, but came to be known as the “Old Version.”