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Take My Life, O Father, Mold It

Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 13 hymnals Topics: Prayer Petitions Scripture: Isaiah 28:16 Used With Tune: GALUPPI Text Sources: Bartol's Hymns for the Sanctuary, 1849; Hymn Tune & Service Book, 1879 (arr.)

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TALMAR

Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 320 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Isaac B. Woodbury Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33312 23356 53132 Used With Text: Take My Life, O Father, Mold It

[Take my life, O Father, mold it]

Appears in 211 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Bortnianski Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 35453 52535 42171 Used With Text: Take My Life, O Father, Mold It

[Take my heart, O Father! mold it]

Appears in 243 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. B. Dykes Incipit: 33332 34533 33332 Used With Text: St. Sylvester

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Take My Life, O Father; Mould It

Author: Unknown Hymnal: Christian Hymns #443 (1948) Languages: English Tune Title: [Take my life, O Father; mould it]

Take my heart, O Father! mould it

Hymnal: Hymn, Tune, and Service Book for Sunday Schools #182 (1869) Languages: English

Take my life, O Father, mould it

Hymnal: The New Alphabetical Hymnal #d376 (1957)

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Anonymous

Person Name: Unknown Author of "Take My Life, O Father; Mould It" in Christian Hymns In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: J. B. Dykes Composer of "[Take my heart, O Father! mold it]" in The Christian Sunday School 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

Dmitri Stepanovich Bortnianski

1751 - 1825 Person Name: Bortnianski Composer of "[Take my life, O Father, mold it]" in The Great Christian Hymnal Dimitri Stepanovitch Bortniansky (1751-1825) Ukraine 1751-1825 Born in Glukhov, Ukraine, he joined the imperial choir at age 8 and studied with Galuppi, who later took the lad with him to Italy, where he studied for 10 years, becoming a composer, harpsichordist, and conductor. While in Italy he composed several operas and other instrumental music, composing more operas and music later in Russia. In 1779 he returned to Russia, where he was appointed Director to the Imperial Chapel Choir, the first as a native citizen. In 1796 he was appointed music director. With such a great instrument at his disposal, he produced many compositions, 100+ religious works, sacred concertos, cantatas, and hymns. He influenced Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovshy, the latter editing Bortniansky's sacred work, amassing 10 volumnes. He died in St. Petersburg. He was so popular in Russia that a bronze statue was erected in his honor in the Novgorod Kremlin. He composed in different musical styles, including choral works in French, Italian, Latin, German, and Church Slavonic. John Perry

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