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Martin Shaw

1875 - 1958 Person Name: Martin Edward Fallas Shaw, 1875-1958 Composer of "[Amen]" in New English Praise Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music. Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915). Bert Polman

Kelly Dobbs-Mickus

b. 1966 Person Name: Kelly Dobbs Mickus Arranger (choral) of "[Amen]" in Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition

William H. Walter

1825 - 1893 Person Name: William Henry Walter, 1825-1893 Composer of "[Amen]" in Hymnbook for Christian Worship

Bob Dufford

b. 1943 Person Name: Bob Duffard, SJ Composer of "[Amen, Amen, Amen]" in Catholic Book of Worship III

Sally Ann Morris

Composer of "[Amen] (Black Mountain Lituryg)" in Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition

Randall Keith DeBruyn

b. 1947 Person Name: Randall DeBruyn, b. 1947 Composer of "[Amen, amen, amen, amen]" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.)

Thomas Adams

1785 - 1858 Composer of "[Amen, Amen] " in The Book of Praise Thomas Adams, born in London, Sept 5, 1785, died ther Sept. 15, 1858. Organist, pupil of Dr. Busby. From 1802 until 1858 he was successively organist of Carlisle Chapel, Lambeth, St. Paul's Deptford, St. George's, Camberwell, and of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, Fleet Street. His anthem for five voices, O how Amiable are Thy Dwellings was performed on the opening of St. George's, Camberwell, in 1824. Adams superintended for many years the annual performances on the Appollonicon, a chamber-organ of great power, containing both keys and barrels, first exhibited in 1817. Works: Organ pieces; Fugues; Voluntaries; 90 interludes; Hymns; Sacred songs; Anthems. Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)

Norah Duncan

Person Name: Norah Duncan IV Composer of "[Amen, amen, amen] (Duncan)" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.)

John Alcock

1715 - 1806 Person Name: J. Alcock Composer of "[Amen]" in Hymnbook for Christian Worship John Alcock, doctor of music, was born in London, April 11, 1715; he composed songs, church music, glees, anthems, instrumental music, chantes, etc., and obtained the prize at the Catch Club; died at Lichfield, 1806, aged 91. A Dictionary of Musical Information by John W. Moore, Boston: Oliver, Ditson & Company, 1876