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Bless the Lord, creation sings

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (born 1926) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: A Song of Creation Benedicite; Doxologies; God's Church Doxology, Glory to God; The Creation; Trinity Sunday The Trinity; Trinity Sunday The Trinity Used With Tune: HUMILITY Text Sources: A Song of Creation/Benedicite

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 166 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. J. Gauntlett (1805-1876) Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 31654 32315 55453 Used With Text: Bless the Lord, creation sings

HUMILITY

Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 83 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. Goss (1800-1880) Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 12176 55124 33231 Used With Text: Bless the Lord, creation sings

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Bless the Lord, creation sings

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (born 1926) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #604a (1987) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Topics: A Song of Creation Benedicite; Doxologies; God's Church Doxology, Glory to God; The Creation; Trinity Sunday The Trinity; Trinity Sunday The Trinity Languages: English Tune Title: HUMILITY

Bless the Lord, creation sings

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (born 1926) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #604b (1987) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Topics: A Song of Creation Benedicite; Doxologies; God's Church Doxology, Glory to God; The Creation; Trinity Sunday The Trinity; Trinity Sunday The Trinity Languages: English Tune Title: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

Bless the Lord, creation sings

Hymnal: Church Family Worship #163 (1988) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Languages: English

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (born 1926) Adapter of "Bless the Lord, creation sings" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Henry J. Gauntlett

1805 - 1876 Person Name: H. J. Gauntlett (1805-1876) Composer of "UNIVERSITY COLLEGE" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Henry J. Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, July 9, 1805; d. London, England, February 21, 1876) When he was nine years old, Henry John Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, England, 1805; d. Kensington, London, England, 1876) became organist at his father's church in Olney, Buckinghamshire. At his father's insistence he studied law, practicing it until 1844, after which he chose to devote the rest of his life to music. He was an organist in various churches in the London area and became an important figure in the history of British pipe organs. A designer of organs for William Hill's company, Gauntlett extended the organ pedal range and in 1851 took out a patent on electric action for organs. Felix Mendelssohn chose him to play the organ part at the first performance of Elijah in Birmingham, England, in 1846. Gauntlett is said to have composed some ten thousand hymn tunes, most of which have been forgotten. Also a supporter of the use of plainchant in the church, Gauntlett published the Gregorian Hymnal of Matins and Evensong (1844). Bert Polman

John Goss

1800 - 1880 Person Name: J. Goss (1800-1880) Composer of "HUMILITY" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) John Goss (b. Fareham, Hampshire, England, 1800; d. London, England, 1880). As a boy Goss was a chorister at the Chapel Royal and later sang in the opera chorus of the Covent Garden Theater. He was a professor of music at the Royal Academy of Music (1827-1874) and organist of St. Paul Cathedral, London (1838-1872); in both positions he exerted significant influence on the reform of British cathedral music. Goss published Parochial Psalmody (1826) and Chants, Ancient and Modern (1841); he edited William Mercer's Church Psalter and Hymn Book (1854). With James Turle he published a two-volume collection of anthems and Anglican service music (1854). Bert Polman