New Facebook page! Plus an update & new tune

While I intend to continue posting the bulk of the project's updates to this medium, I am excited to announce a new Facebook page! I'll try to duplicate most of the content found here over there, but I figured it would probably be more convenient for many of you to be able to follow updates in your newsfeed compared to on an independent website.
Check it out and like the page here: https://www.facebook.com/ThePsalmistsHarp

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On to the update....

As of yesterday, the current count stands at:

-2 texts awaiting to be paired with tunes
-9 texts paired with tunes awaiting typesetting
-186 entries (out of a total 198 to be included in the first edition) completed!

The most recent of these is the tune included below. The end of the book will offer three newly composed tunes -- one short meter, one common meter, and one long meter -- affixed with paraphrases of the doxology in the appropriate meter. The thought behind this is that many ancient Christian practices involve the singing of the doxology at the end of psalm singing; in this way, singers will have texts in each of the three most popular hymn meters, and would be able to insert one of the three as a last verse of one of the psalms in the book. Or, for the more adventurous, a leader could also attempt an "at-will" text-tune pairing by drawing a familiar text from the book and pairing those words with the new tunes.

Give MAGNOLIA, the short meter tune, a shot -- we tried it out at our weekly Citadel shape note singing last evening and thought it was alright! (By the way, in case you were wondering, all three of the doxology tunes do share an arboreal theme.)