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Spirit of God, our comforteer

Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: ST. AGNES

ST. AGNES

Appears in 1,094 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John B. Dykes Tune Key: e minor or modal Incipit: 33323 47155 53225 Used With Text: Spirit of God, Our Comforter

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Spirit of God, Our Comforter

Author: William L. Hendricks Hymnal: Baptist Hymnal (1975 ed) #133 (1975) Topics: Guidance and Care; Holy Spirit Languages: English Tune Title: ST. AGNES

Spirit of God, our comforteer

Hymnal: The New Broadman Hymnal #133 (1977) Tune Title: ST. AGNES

1823 - 1876 Person Name: John B. Dykes Composer of "ST. AGNES" in Baptist Hymnal (1975 ed) 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