At one point, I had begun composing my new settings according to the new translation, but I ceased when we purchased new pew missals which contained the current translation in them. I wanted my settings to match what the PiPs were holding in their hands. Couple that with the fact that this is all so nebulous, and it could easily be a decade before anything official happens... it hardly seems worth jumping ship at this point—particularly considering that the antiphons will very likely be revised, separately from the verse texts. This is all so asinine as to make one's head spin.

Also, I'll warn you that a few of the translations are very different from those to which we are currently accustomed (for better or worse) so it is jarring in places.

"The | Lord pro- | tects the | stranger" is what I already have us sing in lieu of "the Lord protects strangers." I'd most appreciate effort spent on new Responds, though.

I thought it was the other way around: the Grail was devised to fit with Gelinau’s method of responsorial psalmody?

My understanding is the the Grail was written to recreate the rhythmic patterns of the Hebrew psalms in French. Gelineau, being part of the translation team, also composed music to which the Grail could be sung.

Somebody thought it was a great enough idea, that they then ported the whole mess over into English.

It is also my understanding that the Latin psalter renders the psalms in prose, without reference to the meter of the Hebrew. Traditional English versions follow this practice. and this all the historic music was conceived for this sort of text. Actually, since western music developed around these sort of psalter translations, you could almost say that historic music needs prose psalmody, and that a novel psalter needs novel music.

The whole thing goes well with 20th century ideas on the devolution of art and the idea that new art must be brand new, from whole cloth.

Nihil… that is poetic and worthy to be set as an a cappella anthem to be sung at every NOM as a responsorial meditation.

I don't understand this desire for one single all-purpose psalm translation. We have never had that in Latin. The Graduale is still using translations that pre-date the Vulgate, while versions in the Breviary have been changed often.