eroded. “More and more it was the monks who were charged with the praise of the church,” notes Hughes Old.29 The people gave way to the monastic schola cantorum. Over time the church’s music also became increasingly sophisticated. The tunes were difficult, and the words were in Latin. The common people could neither sing nor understand them. Still, the use of the Psalms was, if anything, intensified by the medieval monastic orders, which, following the rules of St. Benedict, chanted their way through