Tune: ST. AELRED

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ST. AELRED

Composer: John Bacchus Dykes (1862)
Published in 66 hymnals

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Composer: John Bacchus Dykes

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… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	ST. AELRED
Composer:	John Bacchus Dykes (1862)
Meter:	8.8.8.3
Incipit:	55555 66513 21766
Key:	c minor or modal
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Fierce Raged Over the Tempest Deep

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150 Last Verse Harmonies: For Use with the Hymn Books of the Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed and Other Free Churches
Composer/Editor John Columba McCann
Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 106
More Last Verses: Another Two Hundred Varied Hymn Tune Harmonies
Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 152
Hymn Arrangements: For the Church Choir
Composer/Editor Donald P. Hustad
Published By: Hope Publishing Company (1954) pp. 44