page_title: Psalm 133
section_title: Musical settings
hierarchical_section_title: Psalm 133 / Musical settings
caption_attribution_description: English: Leonard Bernstein in rehearsal of his "Mass" Azərbaycanca: Leonard Bernstein, onun musiqi teatri əsərin "Mass"-in repetisiyada. Español: Leonard Bernstein en ensayo de su obra "Mass""
context_page_description: Psalm 133 is the 133rd psalm of the Book of Psalms, generally known in English by its first verse, in the King James Version, "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" The Book of Psalms is the third section of the Hebrew Bible and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in its Latin translation in the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 132 in a slightly different numbering system. In Latin, it is known as "Ecce quam bonum". The psalm is one of the fifteen Songs of Ascents, and one of the three Songs of Ascents consisting of only three verses.
  The psalm is a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Anglican and Protestant liturgies. It has been set to music often, notably by Heinrich Schütz, Friedrich Kiel, and as the conclusion of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. Addressing the topic of unity, the beginning of the psalm has been chosen as a motto by universities.
context_section_description: Verse 1, known as Hine Ma Tov ("How goodly") has been set to music in Judaism often. Melodies have been composed for congregational prayer, folk singing, and art and choral settings. The verse is also sung as a Shabbat table song, and folk dances have been choreographed to its settings.
  A Christian hymn in English, "How beautiful the sight", was written based on Psalm 133 by James Montgomery, sung to the tune Old Godric.
  In 1571, David Aquinus composed a setting of Psalm 133 for four voices, setting the translation of the Bible by Martin Luther, "Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ist's" (See how fine and lovely it is). Heinrich Schütz set the psalm in German twice, in 1619 as his SWV 48, "Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ist's", for two sopranos, alto, tenor, bass, cornett, violin, violone and continuo, and again for choir as part of his setting of the Becker Psalter as SWV 148, "Wie ist's so fein, lieblich und schön" (How it is so fine, lovely and beautiful).
  Franz Paul Lachner wrote in 1849 a setting of the psalm for four female voices a cappella. Friedrich Kiel composed a choral setting of verses 1 and 3, "Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ist es", as No. 2 of his 6 Motetten für gemischten Chor (Six motets for mixed choir), Op. 82, of selected psalm settings, published in 1883. Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov set the psalm for choir, together with Psalm 132 as Two evening meal verses in 1899.
  Donald Wyndham Cremer Mossman (1913–2003) composed a setting for choir and organ titled Ecce, quam bonum! with the incipit "Behold, how good and joyful a thing it is", which became part of The Complete St Paul’s Cathedral Psalter. Herman Berlinski composed in 1980 A Psalm of Unity for mixed choir, organ, soprano, two contraltos and mezzo-soprano based on text from Psalm 140 and Psalm 133. Verse 1 concludes the text in Hebrew of the final movement of Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, an extended work for choir and orchestra which begins with the complete text of Psalm 131.
caption: Leonard Bernstein, who chose verse 1 to conclude his 1965 Chichester Psalms
exif: {"Image SubfileType": "Full-resolution Image", "Image ImageWidth": "2861", "Image ImageLength": "4000", "Image BitsPerSample": "8", "Image Compression": "Uncompressed", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "1", "Image StripOffsets": "4932", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "1", "Image RowsPerStrip": "4000", "Image StripByteCounts": "11444000", "Image XResolution": "1000", "Image YResolution": "1000", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Paint.NET v3.10", "Image Artist": "Library of Congress", "Image Tag 0x8649": "[]"}