amongst the Children of Israel, and often refers to the entire Hebrew Bible. God is considered to have authored the Psalms. Psalms in the Rastafari movement The Psalms are one of the most popular parts of the Bible among followers of the Rastafari movement. Rasta singer Prince Far I released an atmospheric spoken version of the psalms, Psalms for I, set to a roots reggae backdrop from The Aggrovators. Psalms set to music Multiple psalms as a single composition Psalms have often been set as part of a larger work. The psalms feature large in settings of Vespers, including those by Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi, Marc-Antoine Charpentier (84 settings H.149 - H.232) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who wrote such settings as part of their responsibilities as church musicians. Psalms are inserted in Requiem compositions, such as Psalm 126 in A German Requiem of Johannes Brahms and Psalms 130 and 23 in John Rutter's Requiem. (6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, 143) by Orlande de Lassus—1584 by Mikołaj Gomółka— Psalmen Davids (1619), Symphoniae sacrae I (1629) and Becker Psalter (1661) by Heinrich Schütz Chandos Anthems by George Frideric Handel—1717–18 Zwei englisch Psalmen (1842), Sieben Psalmen nach Lobwasser (1843), Elijah (1846), and Drei Psalmen (1849) by Felix Mendelssohn Eighteen Liturgical Psalms by Louis Lewandowski—1879 Biblické písně by Antonín Dvořák—1894 by Arthur Honegger—1921 Symphony of Psalms (38, 39, 150) by Igor Stravinsky—1930 Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein—1965 Tehillim by Steve Reich—1981 Four Psalms (114, 126, 133, 137) by John Harbison—1998 Individual psalm settings There are many settings of individual psalms. One of the better known examples is Gregorio Allegri's Miserere mei, a falsobordone setting of Psalm 51 ("Have mercy upon me, O God"). Settings of individual psalms by later composers are also frequent: they include works from composers such as George Frideric Handel, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Psalms also feature in more modern musical movements and popular genres. See also Exclusive psalmody History of music in the biblical period Penitential Psalms Psalm of communal lament Selah Zabur Genevan Psalter Pesher Notes References Bibliography External links TehillimForAll to read Psalms (Tehillim) together with others Tehillim Online to read psalms of David in Hebrew or transliterated. Learn Tehillim Online to read and hear TEHILIM OF THE DAY in Hebrew. Full reading and translation of all 150 Psalms Psalms from Dead Sea Scrolls (Psalms 151–154) Book of Psalms Audiobook—King James