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Melva W. Costen

b. 1933 Adapter of "PENTECOST" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Melva W. Costen, a native of South Carolina, retired as Helmar Emil Nielsen Professor of Worship and Music, choral director, and chair of the church music degree program at Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She subsequently became the Visiting Professor of Liturgical Studies at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut. She remains active in the Civil Rights Movement and as a teacher and consultant in area of church music, liturgy, and curriculum development. (2006) --www.cokesbury.com/

Orlando Schmidt

Person Name: O. S. Arranger of "[Upon the mountain when my Lord spoke]" in Sing and Rejoice!

Nolan Williams

Person Name: Nolan Williams, Jr. b. 1969 Arranger of "FEEL THE SPIRIT" in African American Heritage Hymnal

William Farley Smith

1941 - 1997 Adapter and Arranger of "PENTECOST" in The United Methodist Hymnal

Edward C. Deas

? - 1944 Person Name: E. C. Deas Arranger of "[Upon the mountain when my God spoke]" in Songs and Spirituals Edward C. Deas (unknown – 1944) was a hymnist, arranger of spirituals, music publisher, and music authority for the AME Church. Deas’s hymns, such as “Big Business in Glory” (1921) and “Shine for Jesus” (1925), reflect the simplicity and usage of common language characteristic of the 19th-century revival hymn. Deas also wrote the book Songs and Spirituals of Negro Composition (1928). --Encyclopedia of African American Music, Volume 3, edited by Emmett George Price