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Baby brother, baby brother

Appears in 5 hymnals Used With Tune: [Baby brother, baby brother] Text Sources: Hymns for Infant Children

[Baby brother, baby brother]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. John B. Dykes, Mus. Doc. (1823-1876) Incipit: 13271 32715 31671 Used With Text: Baby brother, baby brother

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Baby brother, baby brother

Hymnal: Little Children's Book #108 (1885) Languages: English Tune Title: [Baby brother, baby brother]

Baby brother, baby brother

Hymnal: Little Children's Book #d7 (1913) Languages: English

Baby brother, baby brother

Hymnal: The Children's Hymnal (with tunes) #d22 (1874)

1823 - 1876 Person Name: Rev. John B. Dykes, Mus. Doc. (1823-1876) Composer of "[Baby brother, baby brother]" in Little Children's Book 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