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O God, beyond All Face and Form

Author: Herbert O'Driscoll Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals

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ST PETERSBURG

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 349 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Dmitri Bortnianski Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 53451 21715 61653 Used With Text: O God, beyond All Face and Form
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MELITA

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 464 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876) Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 13355 66551 27554 Used With Text: O God, beyond All Face and Form

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O God, beyond All Face and Form

Author: Herbert O'Driscoll Hymnal: Voices United #304 (1996) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Topics: God Creation and Providence; Beauty; Choruses and Refrains; Creativity; Glory; God Creator; God Love; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Proper 5 Year A Tune Title: ST PETERSBURG

O God, beyond All Face and Form

Author: Herbert O'Driscoll (1928-) Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #412 (1998) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Topics: Creation; Creation; Love; Baptism (infants) Scripture: Genesis 1, 2:1-4 Languages: English Tune Title: MELITA

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John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876) Composer of "MELITA" in Common Praise (1998) 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: Dmitri Bortnianski Composer of "ST PETERSBURG" in Voices United 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

Herbert O'Driscoll

b. 1928 Person Name: Herbert O'Driscoll (1928-) Author of "O God, beyond All Face and Form" in Common Praise (1998) O'Driscoll, Herbert. (Cork, Ireland, October 17, 1928-- ). Anglican. Graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, 1951. Pastorates at Monkstown (Ireland), 1952-1954; Ottawa, Ontario, 1954-1957, 1962-1968; Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 1957-1960 (naval chaplaincy); Carp, Ont., 1960-1962; Vancouver, British Columbia, (dean), 1968-1982. In 1982 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become the warden of the College of Preachers at Washington Cathedral, but returned to Canada after one year. In both his hymns and his published sermons, he uses traditional techniques to set forth contemporary concerns, so that his work is unusually approachable. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives Also: O'Driscoll, T. Herbert (Thomas Herbert) O'Driscoll, Thomas Herbert