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Lord and Lover of Creation

Author: Graham Maule (1958-) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Marriage; Marriage Scripture: Genesis 1, 2:1-4 Used With Tune: WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 93 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Tune Sources: O God, thou art my God; adapt. The Psalmist, 1842 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 35314 27512 32176 Used With Text: Lord and Lover of Creation

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Lord and Lover of Creation

Author: Graham Maule (1958-) Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #288 (1998) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Topics: Marriage; Marriage Scripture: Genesis 1, 2:1-4 Languages: English Tune Title: WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Lord and lover of creation

Author: Iona Community (Scotland) Hymnal: The Book of Praise #595 (1997) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Topics: Family; Sacraments and Ordinances Marriage Scripture: Genesis 1:27 Languages: English Tune Title: WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Lord and lover of creation

Author: John L. Bell (b. 1949); Graham Maule (b. 1958) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #345 (2013) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Topics: Family and Friends; Gratitude; Marriage Scripture: Psalm 128 Languages: English Tune Title: WESTMINSTER ABBEY

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John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell (b. 1949) Author of "Lord and lover of creation" in Ancient and Modern John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink

Henry Purcell

1659 - 1695 Person Name: Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Composer of "WESTMINSTER ABBEY" in Common Praise (1998) Henry Purcell (b. Westminster, London, England, 1659; d. Westminster, 1695), was perhaps the greatest English composer who ever lived, though he only lived to the age of thirty-six. Purcell's first piece was published at age eight when he was also a chorister in the Chapel Royal. When his voice changed in 1673, he was appointed assistant to John Hingston, who built chamber organs and maintained the king's instruments. In 1674 Purcell began tuning the Westminster Abbey organ and was paid to copy organ music. Given the position of composer for the violins in 1677, he also became organist at Westminster Abbey in 1679 (at age twenty) and succeeded Hingston as maintainer of the king's instruments (1683). Purcell composed music for the theater (Dido and Aeneas, c. 1689) and for keyboards, provided music for royal coronations and other ceremonies, and wrote a substantial body of church music, including eighteen full anthems and fifty-six verse anthems. Bert Polman