The Perfect Songs To Accompany Bible Story Telling

If we are learning Bible Stories to internalize the Word of God, what would be the perfect songs to accompany them?

Well, why not the Psalms?

They are, after all, God's inspired "hymnal".

The first song book published in what is now the United States was the "Bay Psalter", a metrical Psalter.

Metrical versions attempt to put the Psalms in a rhyming format to be sung to common tunes with more or less success.

The actual words of the Psalter were designed to be intoned or chanted. In Hebrew poetry, the ideas are meant to coordinate, not the sounds of the words.

As you might imagine, chanting is a bit harder, though the obstacle is primarily a mental one. It does however have an ongoing place in the Reformation church - Anglican and Lutheran at least.

Here are some resources for that effort if it interests you...

Introduction to Chant

Here's an excellent volume from a Lutheran angle:
Reading The Psalms With Luther

Here's an older work filled with Anglican Chants for the Coverdale Psalter of the 1662 Book of Common prayer along with chants for the service and many liturgical texts such as the Te Deum.

The instructions for chanting Psalms are quite valuable.
The Cathedral Psalter

You can hear actual Anglican chant tunes played here at... Learn The Psalm