Tate and Brady refers to the collaboration of the poets
Nahum Tate
Nahum Tate ( ; 1652 – 30 July 1715) was an Irish poet, hymnist and lyricist, who became Poet Laureate in 1692. Tate is best known for ''The History of King Lear'', his 1681 adaptation of Shakespeare's ''King Lear'', and for his libretto for ...
and
Nicholas Brady, which produced one famous work, ''New Version of the Psalms of David'' (1696). This work was a
metrical version of the
Psalm
The Book of Psalms ( or ; he, תְּהִלִּים, , lit. "praises"), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the ("Writings"), the third section of the Tanakh, and a book of the Old Testament. The title is derived f ...
s, and largely ousted the old version of
T. Sternhold and J. Hopkins' Psalter. Still regularly sung today is their version of
Psalm 34
Psalm 34 is the 34th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth." The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew B ...
, "Through all the changing scenes of life" (which was improved in the second edition of 1698).
As well as the 150 Psalms they also wrote metrical versions of the
Lord's Prayer
The Lord's Prayer, also called the Our Father or Pater Noster, is a central Christian prayer which Jesus taught as the way to pray. Two versions of this prayer are recorded in the gospels: a longer form within the Sermon on the Mount in the Gosp ...
and the
Apostles' Creed
The Apostles' Creed (Latin: ''Symbolum Apostolorum'' or ''Symbolum Apostolicum''), sometimes titled the Apostolic Creed or the Symbol of the Apostles, is a Christian creed or "symbol of faith".
The creed most likely originated in 5th-century ...
.
Because of the association between the authors and the collection, the work itself is sometimes referred to as "Tate and Brady".
Tate's well-known Christmas carol "
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night" was first printed in ''A Supplement to the New Version of the Psalms by Dr Brady and Mr Tate'', published in 1700.
References
External links
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* Tate and Brady's ''New Version of the Psalms of David''
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Psalters
Songwriting teams
Irish musical duos