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O Beauty Ever Ancient

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 3 hymnals Refrain First Line: in gratitude, in worship

ANCIENT BEAUTY

Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Alfred V. Fedak Tune Key: B Flat Major Used With Text: O Beauty Ever Ancient

MANOR PLACE

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Colin Gibson Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 11124 41455 Used With Text: O beauty ever ancient

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Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: Glory to God #650 (2013) Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Refrain First Line: in gratitude, in worship Lyrics: 1 O beauty ever ancient, O beauty ever new, divine and Holy Presence, my being sings to you, Refrain: in gratitude, in worship my being sings to you! 2 O beauty in creation, in world of sound and sight, O beauty in the silence, in darkness as in light, [Refrain] 3 O beauty that is movement in liquid line of grace, O beauty that is stillness in lovely form or face, [Refrain] 4 O beauty of the Spirit where love is shining through, O beauty ever ancient, O beauty ever new, [Refrain] Topics: Creation; Praise; Thanksgiving Scripture: Psalm 29:2 Languages: English Tune Title: ANCIENT BEAUTY

O Beauty Ever Ancient

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: Sing a New Creation #81 (2022) Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6 Topics: Beauty; Creation; Praise; Thanksgiving Languages: English Tune Title: ANCIENT BEAUTY

O beauty ever ancient

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: Hope is our Song #107 (2009) Refrain First Line: in gratitude, in worship Tune Title: MANOR PLACE

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Shirley Erena Murray

1931 - 2020 Author of "O Beauty Ever Ancient" in Glory to God Shirley Erena Murray (b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1931) studied music as an undergraduate but received a master’s degree (with honors) in classics and French from Otago University. Her upbringing was Methodist, but she became a Presbyterian when she married the Reverend John Stewart Murray, who was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Shirley began her career as a teacher of languages, but she became more active in Amnesty International, and for eight years she served the Labor Party Research Unit of Parliament. Her involvement in these organizations has enriched her writing of hymns, which address human rights, women’s concerns, justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and the unity of the church. Many of her hymns have been performed in CCA and WCC assemblies. In recognition for her service as a writer of hymns, the New Zealand government honored her as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit on the Queen’s birthday on 3 June 2001. Through Hope Publishing House, Murray has published three collections of her hymns: In Every Corner Sing (eighty-four hymns, 1992), Everyday in Your Spirit (forty-one hymns, 1996), and Faith Makes the Song (fifty hymns, 2002). The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, for which she worked for a long time, has also published many of her texts (cf. back cover, Faith Makes the Song). In 2009, Otaga University conferred on her an honorary doctorate in literature for her contribution to the art of hymn writing. I-to Loh, Hymnal Companion to “Sound the Bamboo”: Asian Hymns in Their Cultural and Liturgical Context, p. 468, ©2011 GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago

Colin Gibson

b. 1933 Composer of "MANOR PLACE" in Hope is our Song Colin Gibson (b. 1933) was born in Dunedin, the south island of New Zealand. He has been writing hymn texts and hymn settings for over 20 years. His works have been published and performed in Africa, the United States, Asia and Australasia, Great Britain and Europe. He is organist and director of the Mornington Methodist Choir, Dunedin, New Zealand, a lay preacher, and retired in 1999 as Head of the Department and Donald Collie Professor of English at the University of Otago where he currently heads the Department of Theatre Studies and continues to lecture on English Literature as Emeritus Professor. He has conducted numerous hymn workshops in New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain, and has been co-editor of a number of hymn collections. His frequent collaboration with Shirley Erena Murray is represented in several Hope publications, and he has his own published collections of hymns: Singing Love (Collins) and more recently Reading the Signature (Hope, 1994 - Code #1753) and Songs for a Rainbow People (Hope, 1998 - Code #8005). Three of his hymns are included in the Hope hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001). --www.hopepublishing.com

Alfred V. Fedak

b. 1953 Composer of "ANCIENT BEAUTY" in Glory to God Alfred Fedak (b. 1953), is a well-known organist, composer, and Minister of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, New York. He graduated from Hope College in 1975 with degrees in organ performance and music history. He obtained a Master’s degree in organ performance from Montclair State University, and has also studied at Westminster Choir College, Eastman School of Music, the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, and at the first Cambridge Choral Studies Seminar at Clare College, Cambridge. As a composer, he has over 200 choral and organ works in print, and has three published anthologies of his work (Selah Publishing). In 1995, he was named a Visiting Fellow in Church Music at Episcopal Seminary of the Soutwest in Austin, Texas. He is also a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, and was awarded the AGO’s prestigious S. Lewis Elmer Award. Fedak is a Life Member of the Hymn Society, and writes for The American Organist, The Hymn, Reformed Worship, and Music and Worship. He was a member of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song that prepared Glory to God, the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Laura de Jong