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Blest Are the Contrite Hearts

Author: Calvin Seerveld Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 57 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel S. Wesley Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Tune Sources: J. Chetham's A Book of Psalmody, 1718 Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 15432 15765 45321 Used With Text: Blest Are the Contrite Hearts

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Blest Are the Contrite Hearts

Author: Calvin Seerveld Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #206 (1987) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Topics: Comfort & Encouragement; Comfort & Encouragement; Covenant; Humility; Kingdom; Walk with God; Wisdom Scripture: Matthew 5:3-16 Languages: English Tune Title: WIRKSWORTH

Blest Are the Contrite Hearts

Author: Calvin Seerveld Hymnal: With Heart and Voice #34 (1989) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Hymnal Title: With Heart and Voice Topics: Bible Songs Scripture: Matthew 5:3-16 Languages: English Tune Title: WIRKSWORTH

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Calvin Seerveld

b. 1930 Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Versifier of "Blest Are the Contrite Hearts" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Calvin Seerveld (b. 1930) was professor of aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto from 1972 until he retired in 1995. Educated at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan; the University of Michigan; and the Free University of Amsterdam (Ph.D.), he also studied at Basel University in Switzerland, the University of Rome, and the University of Heidelberg. Seerveld began his career by teaching at Bellhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi (1958-1959), and at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois (1959-1972). A fine Christian scholar, fluent in various biblical and modern languages, he is published widely in aesthetics, biblical studies, and philosophy. His books include Take Hold of God and Pull (1966), The Greatest Song: In Critique of Solomon (1967), For God's Sake, Run with Joy (1972), Rainbows for the Fallen World: Aesthetic Life and Artistic Task (1980), and On Being Human (1988). He credits the Dutch musician Ina Lohr for influencing his compositions of hymn tunes. Most of his Bible versifications and hymns were written for the Psalter Hymnal (1987), on whose revision committee he ably served. Bert Polman

Samuel Sebastian Wesley

1810 - 1876 Person Name: Samuel S. Wesley Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Harmonizer of "WIRKSWORTH" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Samuel Sebastian Wesley (b. London, England, 1810; d. Gloucester, England, 1876) was an English organist and composer. The grandson of Charles Wesley, he was born in London, and sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy. He learned composition and organ from his father, Samuel, completed a doctorate in music at Oxford, and composed for piano, organ, and choir. He was organist at Hereford Cathedral (1832-1835), Exeter Cathedral (1835-1842), Leeds Parish Church (1842-1849), Winchester Cathedral (1849-1865), and Gloucester Cathedral (1865-1876). Wesley strove to improve the standards of church music and the status of church musicians; his observations and plans for reform were published as A Few Words on Cathedral Music and the Music System of the Church (1849). He was the musical editor of Charles Kemble's A Selection of Psalms and Hymns (1864) and of the Wellburn Appendix of Original Hymns and Tunes (1875) but is best known as the compiler of The European Psalmist (1872), in which some 130 of the 733 hymn tunes were written by him. Bert Polman