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Iain D. Cunningham

b. 1954 Person Name: Iain D. Cunningham (b. 1954) Author of "The tyrant issues his decrees" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) I am a Church of Scotland Minister, ordained in 1979, currently minister of Kirkton Church, Carluke. I was born in Port Glasgow but moved to Lanarkshire when I was 11 years old. Having been a pupil at Hamilton Academy, from 1966 to 1972, I studied English and Drama at Glasgow University before receiving a call to ministry. I remained at Glasgow University to complete a BD degree and was ordained by Ayr Presbytery in 1979. I have served as a Parish Minister, first of all at Duntocher Trinity Church, from 1980 to 1987 and then from 1987 to the present day at Kirkton Church Carluke. I have also served on several central church councils and committees, most recently as Convener of the Church of Scotland's World Mission Council, from 2014-2018. Iain D. Cunningham

Richard W. Adams

b. 1952 Author of "How Shall We Answer Terror's Cry?" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: 1952, Missouri. Adams graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia (BA 1974, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).

William Tans'ur

1699 - 1783 Composer of "BANGOR" in The Cyber Hymnal William Tansur, b. about 1700, Dunchurch of Barnes; d. 1783, St. Neots Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908 Also known as Tansur; Tanzer; le Tansur

Joseph Herl

Person Name: Joseph Herl, b. 1959 Translator (st. 1) of "These Are the Holy Ten Commands" in Lutheran Service Book HERL, JOSEPH, AAGO, ChM (b. 1959): B.A. (Music), Concordia College, New York; M.Mus. (Organ), North Texas State University; Ph.D. (Musicology), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Professor of Music at Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska and organist of Redeemer Lutheran Church, Lincoln, Nebraska. Author of Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism (Oxford University Press, 2004); choral and organ music published by Oxford, Concordia, and MorningStar. Joseph Herl (from In Melody and Song, Darcey Press, 2014

Thomas Ravenscroft

1592 - 1635 Composer of "OLD 104TH" in The Cyber Hymnal Thomas Ravenscroft United Kingdom 1592-1635. Born at Sussex, England, he allegedly sang in the choir at St Paul’s Cathedral. He attended music lectures at Gresham College. He was educated at Cambridge College, graduating in 1607. From 1618-1622 he was music master at Christ’s Hospital. Many of his works were aimed at pleasing a middle class lay public. He collected folk music: “Pammelia” (1609), “Deuteromelia” [includes the song “Three blind mice”](1609), “Melismata” (1611). He also published a metrical Psalter (the whole book of Psalms) in 1621. He composed 11 anthems, three motets, and four fantasies. He also wrote two treatises on music theory: “A briefe discourse of the true (but neglected) use of charact'ring the degrees” (1614), and “A treatise of musick”. He was an author, compiler, composer, editor, arranger, musician, bibliographer, contributor, antecedent, lyricist and creator. No informaton found regarding family. He died at London, England. 672 works. A reprint of his “Psalms” was published in 1844 by Canon Havergal. John Perry

F. Samuel Janzow

1913 - 2001 Person Name: F. Samuel Janzow, 1913-2001 Translator (st. 3-5, 7, 11) of "These Are the Holy Ten Commands" in Lutheran Service Book F. Samuel Janzow was Professor of English at Concordia University Chicago from 1954 to 1980. NNM

Walter Kittredge

1834 - 1905 Composer of "TENTING TONIGHT" in Sunday School and Revival Born: October 8, 1834, Reed’s Ferry, Merrimack, New Hampshire. Died: July 8, 1905, Reed’s Ferry, Merrimack, New Hampshire. Buried: Last Rest Cemetery, Merrimack, New Hampshire. A popular secular musician, Kittredge wrote over 500 songs and ballads, many dealing with the American civil war, including "The War Will Soon Be Over," "When They Come Marching Home," "Tenting on the Old Campground." --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Jack Michael Grotenhuis

1956 - 1983 Person Name: Jack Grotenhuis Harmonizer of "MORNING SONG" in Lift Up Your Hearts Jack Grotenhuis (b. 1983; d. 1983) studied music at Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa, and the University of lowa, and taught music at Lynden Christian High School, Lynden, Washington, from 1979 to 1981. Like his father, Dale Grotenhuis, his main interest was in choral music, but he also loved jazz. He had almost completed his doctoral program in choral music at the University of Arizona when he died in a traffic accident. Bert Polman