A handbook of Bible and church music .. . lese hir nekkeAs for to yeve a peny of hir good. (Chaucer.) 3. Shawms. Heb. shophar (p. ^^. i). PrayerBook Version, Ps. xcviii. 7 (6 in Authorized andRevised Versions), only used here. The shaivmwas a reed instrument like a shepherds pipe,a sort of oboe, and parent of the clarinet(Chappell); a cornet, or bassoon—frequentlyassociated with the bagpipe (G.). The shawmis often referred to in old poets and writers— Is not a shalm known from a drum? (Archbp. Cranmer.) With shaumes and trompets and with clarions sweet. (Spenser.) MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND TERMS
A handbook of Bible and church music .. . lese hir nekkeAs for to yeve a peny of hir good. (Chaucer.) 3. Shawms. Heb. shophar (p. ^^. i). PrayerBook Version, Ps. xcviii. 7 (6 in Authorized andRevised Versions), only used here. The shaivmwas a reed instrument like a shepherds pipe,a sort of oboe, and parent of the clarinet(Chappell); a cornet, or bassoon—frequentlyassociated with the bagpipe (G.). The shawmis often referred to in old poets and writers— Is not a shalm known from a drum? (Archbp. Cranmer.) With shaumes and trompets and with clarions sweet. (Spenser.) MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND TERMS. 67 That maden loude menstralcyesIn cornemuse, and shalmyes,And many other maner pype. (Chaucer.)Even from the shrillest schame unto the corna mute. (Drayton.) The derivation of the word seems to havepassed through many transitions, as the differentspellings testify. Shawm: Teut. scha^vnle ; , to scream; shalmie, schalmey—alsochalmie, from chalumeau, L. calamus. 4. The Lyre is not mentioned in any of SUPPOSED HEBREW LYRE. ( E. E 2 CHAPTER X. SUPERSCRIPTIONS OF PSALMS. There has always been some difference ofopinion as to the genuineness and authorityof the Superscriptions or Headings of the they co-eval with the Psalms or of sub-sequent date? What is their worth or value?To arrive at a conclusion which may not be farfrom the true one, it is to be observed that (a)the Hebrew, in which they are written, is mostlyarchaic, (h) In the Hebrew Bibles they areprinted as though they were the opening versesof the Psalm—not separated, and over it, as inthe English and other versions of the Bible, (c)Where a Psalm is recorded in other Books of theOld Testament—e. g. 2 Sam. xxii. i ; xxiii. i ;Isa. xxxviii. 9; Hab. iii. i, 19—there is alwaysa Prefix stating either the author or the occasionof the composition. From all this—added towhich there is (to us) their obscure and enigma-tical form in many cases—it is a reasonableopinion tha
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