Psalm singing.
For centuries, only the Psalter — God's own hymnbook — often unaccompanied, in meter.
Exclusive psalmody — singing only the biblical psalms, unaccompanied — follows directly from the regulative principle, and some Reformed churches still practice it. Others sing hymns. The metrical psalters produced for this purpose, particularly in Scotland and the Netherlands, are a substantial body of religious literature, and the a cappella psalm singing of the Scottish Gaelic tradition has been an acknowledged influence on American gospel and blues.
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