Short Name: | John Bacchus Dykes |
Full Name: | Dykes, John Bacchus, 1823-1876 |
Birth Year: | 1823 |
Death Year: | 1876 |
As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern.
Bert Polman
Texts by John Bacchus Dykes (12)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Father, I know that all my life | John B. Dykes (Author) | English | 1 |
Fierce raged the tempest over the deep | John B. Dykes (Author) | English | 1 |
Hosanna to the living Lord! | John B. Dykes (Author) | English | 1 |
I heard the voice of Jesus say, "Come unto Me and rest" | John B. Dykes (Author) | English | 2 |
Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me, Bless Your little lamb tonight | J. B. Dykes (Author) | English | 1 |
Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom | John B. Dykes (Author) | English | 2 |
Lord God of Hosts, whose purpose, never swerving | John B. Dykes (Author) | English | 2 |
O! for a closer walk with God | John B. Dykes (Author) | English | 1 |
Santo, santo, santo, Dios y Señor nuestro | John Bacchus Dykes (Author) | Spanish | 1 |
Stand fast for Christ thy Savior | John B. Dykes (Author) | English | 1 |
To do Thy holy will, to bear Thy cross | John B. Dykes (Author) | English | 1 |
To thy father and thy mother | John B. Dykes (Author) | English | 6 |