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John Bacchus Dykes
1823 - 1876 Composer of "MELITA" in The Cyber Hymnal 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
John Bacchus Dykes
Elkanah Kelsay Dare
1782 - 1826 Person Name: Elkanah Kelsey Dare Composer (attributed to) of "KEDRON" in Hymns to the Living God Elkanah Kelsey Dare (1782-1826) was born in New Jersey but moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania sometime before 1818. He was a Methodist [sic Presbyterian] minister and very possibly the music editor for John Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second (1813), a shaped-note collection that includes more than a dozen of his tunes.
Emily Brink
Elkanah Kelsay Dare
Basil Manly
1825 - 1892 Person Name: Basil Manly, Jr. Author of "Lord, I Deserve Thy Deepest Wrath" in The Cyber Hymnal Manly, Basil, junior, D.D., born in Edgefield County, South Carolina, Dec. 19, 1825, was educated at the State University of Alabama, and entered the Baptist ministry in 1848. He has held several important appointments amongst the Baptists. He is the author of nearly 40 hymns, several of which are in common use. Of these the following 9 appeared in The Baptist Psalmody, 1850, which he edited with his father:—
1. Before a pool the sufferer lay. The Pool of Bethesda.
2. God of the seas, Whose ruling voice. For those at Sea.
3. God with us, 0 glorious [wondrous] name, Manifest in flesh He came. Christmas.
4. Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of hosts in heaven adored. The Divine Holiness.
5. In doubt's dim twilight here I stray.
6. Jesus, my Lord, I own Thee God. Divinity of Jesus.
7. Lord, I deserve Thy deepest wrath.
8. Our God invites the wanderers home. Invitation.
9. There is a light which shines from heaven.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Manly, Basil M., Jr. (Edgefield County, South Carolina, December 19, 1825--January 31, 1892, Louisville, Kentucky). Southern Baptist. University of Alabama, Dipl. 1844; honorary D.D. 1859; Princeton Theological Seminary, Dipl. 1847; Agricultural College, Auburn, Alabama, honorary LL.D. 1874. Pastorates in Sumter County, Ala., and Noxubee County, Mississippi, 1848; Richmond, Virginia, 1850-1854. President of Richmond Female Institute, 1854-1859, and Georgetown College, Ky., 1871-1879. Faculty member at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ky., 1859-1871, 1879-1892. Leader in formation of first Southern Baptist Sunday School Board (1863-1873). His hymnal, The Baptist Psalmody (Charleston, 1850, with Basil Manly, Sr.), became quite popular among Southern Baptists; also compiled Baptist Chorals (Richmond, 1859) and The Choice (Louisville, 1891); served on editorial board for The Baptist Praise Book (New York, 1872). His best-known hymn, "Soldiers of Christ, in truth arrayed" was written for the first commencement at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1860), where it is still sung on every such occasion. Another of his hymns, "Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of hosts, in heaven adored" found its way into C.H. Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn-Book (London, 1866, No. 189).
--David W. Music, DNAH Archives
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