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William Croft

1678 - 1727 Person Name: William Croft, 1678-1727 Topics: Call; Commission; Future; Hope; Kingdom of God; New Life; National and World Peace; Prophetic Ministry; Reconciliation; Victory; Worth; Zion Composer of "ST. MATTHEW" in Hymns of the Saints William Croft, Mus. Doc. was born in the year 1677 and received his musical education in the Chapel Royal, under Dr. Blow. In 1700 he was admitted a Gentleman Extraordinary of the Chapel Boyd; and in 1707, upon the decease of Jeremiah Clarke, he was appointed joint organist with his mentor, Dr. Blow. In 1709 he was elected organist of Westminster Abbey. This amiable man and excellent musician died in 1727, in the fiftieth year of his age. A very large number of Dr. Croft's compositions remain still in manuscript. Cathedral chants of the XVI, XVII & XVIII centuries, ed. by Edward F. Rimbault, London: D. Almaine & Co., 1844

Iona Community

Topics: Biblical Names and Places Abraham; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Church Year Ascension of the Lord; Church Year Baptism of the Lord; Church Year Christ the King; Church Year Pentecost; Earth; Elements of Worship Call to Worship; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Enemies; Enthronement Psalms; God Trust in; God as Shield; God as King; God's Reigning; God's Sovereignty; God's Armor; God's Strength; Hymns of Praise; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Joy; Mercy; Mission; Music and Musicians; Musical Instruments; Occasional Services Commissioning; People of God / Church Witnessing; Rejoicing; Rulers; Suffering; The Incarnation; Worship; Year A, B, C, Easter, Ascension of the Lord, Ascention Day (Thursday or 7th Sunday of Easter) Author of "Psalm 47 (A Responsorial Setting)" in Psalms for All Seasons Iona Community, an ecumenical Christian group of men and women based on the small island of Iona off the coast of Scotland. The community began in 1938 when the Rev. George MacLeod of the Church of Scotland began a ministry among the unemployed poor who had been neglected by the church. He took a handful of men to the island to rebuild the ruins of a thousand-year-old abbey church. That rebuilding became a metaphor for the rebuilding of the common life, a return to the belief that daily activity is the stuff of godly service – work, and worship. The Community has since grown to include a group of members, associates, and friends all over the United Kingdom and many other countries. In addition to many conferences that attract people to Iona from around the world, the Community is known for its publishing of new songs and prayers for worship, both developed in community and gathered from around the world. For more information on the Iona Community, check their website: www.iona.org.uk. John Bell is probably the community’s most well-known member, having composed and arranged much of the community’s music. Sing! A New Creation

Louis Bourgeois

1510 - 1561 Person Name: Louis Bourgeois, ca. 1510-1561 Topics: Biblical Names and Places Abraham; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Church Year Ascension of the Lord; Church Year Baptism of the Lord; Church Year Christ the King; Church Year Pentecost; Earth; Elements of Worship Call to Worship; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Enemies; Enthronement Psalms; God Trust in; God as Shield; God as King; God's Reigning; God's Sovereignty; God's Armor; God's Strength; Hymns of Praise; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Joy; Mercy; Mission; Music and Musicians; Musical Instruments; Occasional Services Commissioning; People of God / Church Witnessing; Rejoicing; Rulers; Suffering; The Incarnation; Worship; Year A, B, C, Easter, Ascension of the Lord, Ascention Day (Thursday or 7th Sunday of Easter) Composer of "GENEVAN 47" in Psalms for All Seasons Louis Bourgeois (b. Paris, France, c. 1510; d. Paris, 1561). In both his early and later years Bourgeois wrote French songs to entertain the rich, but in the history of church music he is known especially for his contribution to the Genevan Psalter. Apparently moving to Geneva in 1541, the same year John Calvin returned to Geneva from Strasbourg, Bourgeois served as cantor and master of the choristers at both St. Pierre and St. Gervais, which is to say he was music director there under the pastoral leadership of Calvin. Bourgeois used the choristers to teach the new psalm tunes to the congregation. The extent of Bourgeois's involvement in the Genevan Psalter is a matter of scholarly debate. Calvin had published several partial psalters, including one in Strasbourg in 1539 and another in Geneva in 1542, with melodies by unknown composers. In 1551 another French psalter appeared in Geneva, Eighty-three Psalms of David, with texts by Marot and de Beze, and with most of the melodies by Bourgeois, who supplied thirty four original tunes and thirty-six revisions of older tunes. This edition was republished repeatedly, and later Bourgeois's tunes were incorporated into the complete Genevan Psalter (1562). However, his revision of some older tunes was not uniformly appreciated by those who were familiar with the original versions; he was actually imprisoned overnight for some of his musical arrangements but freed after Calvin's intervention. In addition to his contribution to the 1551 Psalter, Bourgeois produced a four-part harmonization of fifty psalms, published in Lyons (1547, enlarged 1554), and wrote a textbook on singing and sight-reading, La Droit Chemin de Musique (1550). He left Geneva in 1552 and lived in Lyons and Paris for the remainder of his life. Bert Polman

Greg Scheer

b. 1966 Topics: Biblical Names and Places Abraham; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Church Year Ascension of the Lord; Church Year Baptism of the Lord; Church Year Christ the King; Church Year Pentecost; Earth; Elements of Worship Call to Worship; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Enemies; Enthronement Psalms; God Trust in; God as Shield; God as King; God's Reigning; God's Sovereignty; God's Armor; God's Strength; Hymns of Praise; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Joy; Mercy; Mission; Music and Musicians; Musical Instruments; Occasional Services Commissioning; People of God / Church Witnessing; Rejoicing; Rulers; Suffering; The Incarnation; Worship; Year A, B, C, Easter, Ascension of the Lord, Ascention Day (Thursday or 7th Sunday of Easter) Author of "Clap Your Hands, All You Nations" in Psalms for All Seasons Greg Scheer is a composer, author, and speaker. His life’s work includes two sons (Simon and Theo), two books (The Art of Worship, 2006, and Essential Worship, 2016), and hundreds of compositions, songs, and arrangements in a dizzying variety of styles. Greg is also co-founder of Hymnary.org and source of many ideas and inspirations, some good. Greg Scheer

William Henry Harris

1883 - 1973 Person Name: William Henry Harris, 1883-1973 Topics: Calling and Commissioning Composer of "NORTH PETHERTON" in Singing the Faith Sir William Henry Harris KCVO (28 March 1883 - 6 September 1973) was an English organist and composer, affectionately nicknamed 'Doc H' by his choristers. Harris was born in Fulham, London and died in Petersfield. He was a chorister of Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill. At the age of 14, he took up a "flexible" position as Assistant Organist at St David's Cathedral in Wales, followed at 16 by a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he was Professor of Organ and Harmony from 1921 to 1955. He was organist at St Augustine's Church, Edgbaston from 1911 to 1919 and concurrently of Assistant Organist at Lichfield Cathedral followed in 1919 by becoming Organist successively at New College and in 1929 Christ Church, Oxford, moving to St. George's Chapel, Windsor in 1933. As Organist at Windsor, Harris was at his most productive. He produced music for the Three Choirs Festival, was a conductor at both the 1937 and 1953 coronations, and had music premiered at the Proms, all of which led to being appointed KCVO in 1954. Harris is best remembered for his Anglican church music, though his main achievements were as a choir-trainer. His most famous works are the anthems "Faire is the heaven" (1925) and to a lesser extent "Bring us, O Lord God" (1959), both for unaccompanied double choir, and "Strengthen ye the weak hands" (1949) for choir and organ. His very accessible Communion Service in F was frequently sung in a great many Anglican parish churches up until the 1970s. The canticles Harris in A and Harris in A minor are still sung at Evensong in a number of Anglican cathedrals. He also composed cantatas and organ pieces, as well as the hymn tune Alberta (often used for the words "Lead, Kindly Light"), and various Anglican psalm chants. --en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Dominic Grant

b. 1970 Person Name: Dominic Grant, b. 1970 Topics: Calling and Commissioning Author of "O Watcher in the wilderness" in Singing the Faith

Joseph Francis Thrupp

1827 - 1867 Person Name: Joseph Francis Thrupp, 1827-1867 Topics: Calling and Commissioning Composer of "EPIPHANY" in Singing the Faith Thrupp, Joseph. Francis, M.A., son of a solicitor, was born May 20,1827, and educated at Winchester School and Trinity College, Cambridge. At Winchester he gained the Heathcote and Duncan prizes, and the Queen's gold medal for an English poem, and was Head Prefect during his last year. He graduated in 1849 as 7th Wrangler, and 11th in the 1st class of the Classical Tripos. In 1850 he was elected a Fellow of his college. Taking Holy Orders in 1852, he was appointed Vicar of Barrington, Cambridge, in 1852, and Select Preacher before the University in 1865. He was also for some time a member of the Board of Theological Studies, and was associated with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge some 20 years. He died at Surbiton, Sept. 24, 1867. His published works include An Introduction to the Study and the Use of the Psalms; A Revised Translation of the Song of Songs; Ancient Jerusalem; and Psalms and Hymns (Cambridge, Macmillan), 1853. This last contains prefaces, indices, with authors’ names, 93 psalms, 236 hymns, 16 doxologies. Of these 28 psalms and 18 hymns are by Mr. Thrupp. The best known of his hymns are, "Awhile in spirit, Lord, to Thee"; "Hail, that head, all torn and wounded"; "O Son of Man, Thyself once crossed." Mr. Thrupp's versions of individual psalms have not come into common use beyond his own collection. They are therein signed with his initials, "J. F.T.," but are not separately annotated in this Dictionary. His hymns are mainly on the special Festivals of the Church, and, in addition to those annotated elsewhere are:— 1. Abide with us, 0 Saviour dear. Evening. 2. Eternal Word! Incarnate Light. Christ our All. 3. Eternal Word! Who ever wast. Annunciation. 4. How beauteous are their peaceful feet. Ordination. 5. Lord of majesty and might. School Festival. 6. Master, the Son of God art Thou. St. Bartholomew. 7. 0 Saviour of our earthly race. St. Luke. 8. 0 Thou, Whom upward to the sky. Ascension. 9. 0, where shall we deliverance seek. Lent. 10. Ope, Salem, ope thy temple gates. The Presentation. 11. Saviour of men, Almighty Lord. St. Mark. 12. Thou Who didst Thy brethren twain. Saints Simon and Jude. 13. Thou Whose voice upon the border. St. Andrew. 14. To David's Son hosannas sing. Palm Sunday. 15. Two and two, Thy servants, Lord. SS. Philip and James. 16. What, though the ground all good at first. Lent. Mr. Thrupp contributed several articles to Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, and was one of the selected writers on the staff of the Speaker's Commentary. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Edward Hodges

1796 - 1867 Person Name: Edward Hodges, 1796-1867 Topics: Church; Commissioning; Easter; Evangelism; Gospel Call and Response; Love; Mission; Providence; Salvation; Word of God Arranger of "HYMN TO JOY" in Hymns for a Pilgrim People Born: July 20, 1796, Bristol, England. Died: September 1, 1867, Clifton, Bristol, England. Buried: Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Stanton Drew (about eight miles south of Bristol). Hodges’ musical gift showed itself at an early age; by 1819, he was playing the organ at St. James’ Church in Bristol, and at St. Nicholas’, 1821-1838. He also had an interesting mechanical bent, and spurred several technical improvements in organ design. He composed a number of services and anthem pieces, and Cambridge University awarded him a doctorate in music in 1825. Hodges eventually emigrated, accepting a post at the cathedral in Toronto, Canada, in 1838. The next year, he became music director at Trinity Parish in New York City. He became the organist at Trinity Church when it opened in 1846 (the church had its organ built to his specifications). He retired for health reasons in 1859, and returned to his native England in 1863. Hodges’ works include: An Apology for Church Music and Musical Festivals, in Answer…to the Standard and the Record (London: 1834) Essays on the Objects of Musical Study (Bristol, England: 1838) An Essay on the Cultivation of Church Music (New York: 1841) Contributions to the Quarterly Musical Magazine & Musical World Trinity Collection of Church Music (Boston, Massachusetts: 1864) (editor) Music-- BRISTOL GLOUCESTER HABAKKUK HYMN TO JOY --www.hymntime.com/