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Creation Sings! Each Plant and Tree

Author: Martin E Leckebusch Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals

MELITA

Appears in 462 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John B. Dykes Incipit: 13355 66551 27554 Used With Text: Creation sings! Each plant and tree

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 349 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Dimitri S. Bortnianski, 1751-1825 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 53451 21715 61653 Used With Text: Creation Sings! Each Plant and Tree

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Creation Sings! Each Plant and Tree

Author: Martin E. Leckebusch, b. 1962 Hymnal: Sing! A New Creation #36 (2002) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Topics: Praise and Adoration Scripture: Genesis 1 Languages: English Tune Title: ST. PETERSBURG

Creation sings! Each plant and tree

Author: Martin E. Leckebusch Hymnal: Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #146 (2008) Languages: English Tune Title: MELITA

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John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: John B. Dykes Composer of "MELITA" in Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) 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

Dmitri Stepanovich Bortnianski

1751 - 1825 Person Name: Dimitri S. Bortnianski, 1751-1825 Composer of "ST. PETERSBURG" in Sing! A New Creation Dimitri Stepanovitch Bortniansky (1751-1825) Ukraine 1751-1825 Born in Glukhov, Ukraine, he joined the imperial choir at age 8 and studied with Galuppi, who later took the lad with him to Italy, where he studied for 10 years, becoming a composer, harpsichordist, and conductor. While in Italy he composed several operas and other instrumental music, composing more operas and music later in Russia. In 1779 he returned to Russia, where he was appointed Director to the Imperial Chapel Choir, the first as a native citizen. In 1796 he was appointed music director. With such a great instrument at his disposal, he produced many compositions, 100+ religious works, sacred concertos, cantatas, and hymns. He influenced Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovshy, the latter editing Bortniansky's sacred work, amassing 10 volumnes. He died in St. Petersburg. He was so popular in Russia that a bronze statue was erected in his honor in the Novgorod Kremlin. He composed in different musical styles, including choral works in French, Italian, Latin, German, and Church Slavonic. John Perry