Routley states that metrical psalmody was actually the first English Protestant hymnody. In the early church, the music consisted of hymns and antiphonal psalmody. The tradition stemmed from the antiphonal psalmody of the early Western church. Psalmodic chants include "direct psalmody", "antiphonal chants", and "responsorial chants". Antiphonal psalmody is the singing or musical playing of psalms by alternating groups of performers. In direct psalmody, psalm verses are sung without refrains to simple, formulaic tones. "Antiphonal psalmody" is the singing or musical playing of psalms by alternating groups of performers. The same liturgy also preserved vigils of long psalmody. The use of two reciting tones in Gregorian psalmody may derive from Gallican chant. Throughout the sixth century, Bangor became famous for its choral psalmody. The psalmody is followed by a scripture reading. He suggested that Bryant's use of "ritual repetition" made her language resemble psalmody. The echoi of the psalmody are eight. The region was then under the rule of the monks from the Abbey of Psalmody. The PCEA is often noted for its practice of exclusive psalmody.