| Didache |
The (aka The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, early 2nd c). Teaching material circulated among one group of Christians about Baptism, the Lordâs Supper, ministry and fasting. It has influenced some… |
| Irons, Herbert Stephen |
b Canterbury, Kent 1834, d Nottingham 1905. A Canterbury Cathedral choirboy (where his father was a lay-vicar) 1844â49, he studied music at Oxford with his uncle Stephen Elvey (another uncle being… |
| King, Robert |
b c1660â1675, d c1725. A recorder player, harpsichordist and composer who worked in London at the Kingâs Playhouse and St Martinâs in the Fields, he served under 5 monarchs as Court Musician… |
| Barthow, Mary Kirkbride |
Her best known (and jointly-authored) song, included here, made its first impact in the UK through Spring Harvest events and MP; it has now reached CH in its 2004 edn. But she has worked with Mary Lou… |
| Paget, Catesby |
b ?England 1868, d 1930. Coming from a family including both ecclesiastical and military traditions featured in Burkeâs Peerage, this one of several historic Catesbyâs belonged to those then known… |
| Strassen (S-Benjamin), Linda |
b Indiana, USA 1951. S Central High Sch; Ball State Univ, Muncie, In; El Camino Coll, Via Torrence, Ca. In the 1970s she composed and sang with recording groups âDavidâ (from 1974) and âNew… |
| Williams, Aaron |
b ?London 1731, d London 1776. Publisher; music teacher and engraver at W Smithfield in London. He was also Clerk at the Scots Ch, London Wall. Compiled and published The Universal Psalmodist 1763,… |
| Stanley, Samuel |
b Birmingham 1767, d Birmingham 1822. Violinist and cellist; precentor at Carrâs Lane Meeting House aged 20, then (for 34 years) at Ebenezer Chapel, both in the home town where he spent his life. He… |
| Filitz, Friedrich |
b Arnstadt, Thuringia, central Germany 1804, d Munich (or Bonn?), Germany 1876. After achieving a doctorate in philosophy he lived in Berlin from 1843 to 1847, when he moved to Munich where he… |
| Green, Melody |
b USA 1946. See entry for Keith G, whom she met in the 1970s; together they renounced their hippie lifestyle and travelled widely across the USA, singing, recording and ministering within a wide range… |
| Wade, John Francis |
b ?England 1710 or 1711, d Douai, France 1786. An English Roman Catholic Latin teacher and music copyist, whose family or friends may have joined the small community of RCs who settled for security in… |
| SchĂŒtz, Johann Jakob |
b Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1640, d Frankfurt 1690. He studied at TĂŒbingen to become a licentiate in civil and canon law, but returned to spend most of the rest of his life as a lawyer at Frankfurt.… |
| Motyer Lowndes, Catherine (Kate) M |
b London 1968, daughter of J A Motyer qv (Author index). Talbot Heath Sch for Girls, Bournemouth and Cambridge Univ (B Ed); works as a teacher, and belongs to St Chadâs ch, Handforth, Ches (CofE);… |
| Otte, Helen |
b ?USA 1931. An American writer who has revised older Psalm versions and made new paraphrases; 14 of these and 2 hymns, all from the 1980s, feature in the Psalter Hymnal of the Christian Reformed… |
| Richards, Tricia |
b Plymouth, Devon, 1960. School in Plymouth; she met Noel, her future husband and songwriting partner, in 1975 while she was a senior schoolgirl and he was a visiting missioner with Youth for Christ.… |
| Haworth, Sally |
She became a Christian in the mid-1970s and now teams up in concerts together with husband Bryn, working as his manager and sometimes as a co-authorâsee above, and Blanchard and Lucariniâs Can we… |
| Hadden, David John |
b Newcastle upon Tyne 1952. Bedlington Grammar Sch, Northumberland, and W Midlands Coll of Education, Walsall (now part of Birmingham Univ). He taught in middle schools in the NE until 1980, when he… |
| Gustafson, Gerrit |
b USA. A church-planting pastor-teacher from c1970, he joined the Creative Team of Integrity Worship in 1985, which involved him in a world-wide musical and teaching ministry. Later he pioneered his… |
| Ferguson, William Harold |
b Leeds 1874, d Littlehampton, Sussex 1950. Magdalen Coll School, Magdalen Coll chorister, and Keble Coll Oxford; 4 yrs teaching at St Edwardâs Sch Oxford and Bilton Grange, Rugby, then at Cuddesdon… |
| Rees, John Thomas |
b Cwmgiedd. nr Ystradgynlais, Powys (Brecon) 1857, d Bow Street, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion (Cardiganshire) 1949. He changed his middle name from âMorganâ, hoping thus to avoid confusion with a… |
| Brierley, John Michael |
b Leicester 1932. London Univ (BD 1971) and Lichfield Theol Coll; ordained (CofE) 1960. Parish ministries in Worcs as curate and vicar; also an organist who while a student assisted Gordon Hartless at… |
| Coleman, T Brian |
b Wallsend, nr Newcastle, Tyne and Wear 1920. Contemporary composer of a tune (in 1979) first published in Partners in Praise (in 1979, the year of its composition) and now appearing in numerous other… |
| Monaghan, Stephanie |
(formerly MASON), b Islington, N London 1953. Central Foundation Girlsâ Grammar Sch, London EC1. Graduated BA in Theology and Religious Studies (1998); Diploma in Journalism and Combined Arts. A… |
| Thomas, David Vaughan |
b Ystalyfera, Powys 1873, d S Africa 1934. He studied music under Dr Joseph Parry after moving to Pontardulais, and then at Llandovery Coll and Exeter Coll Oxford (BA, MA, MusD). He was a… |
| Bohemian Brethren, KirchengesÀnge 1566 |
The much-abbreviated title of the last of a small group of early German and Slovak Psalters from this source between 1531 and 1566, each of which has yielded some classic hymn tunes in current use.… |
| Edwards, Hywel Islwyn |
b 1906, d 1991. A Welsh composer who lived in Llangollen. According to his son Oswain, Prof in the Norwegian State Academy of Music, his best-known tune was ALED, published in a series of hymns for… |
| Macdonald, Mary (MacDougall) |
b Ardtun, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire 1789, d Ardtun 1872. Her whole life was spent on the Scottish W coast island of Mull. As a crofterâs wife who saw troubles enough over the years, she would… |
| Companion Tune Book (1927) |
A compilation from the Strict (Gospel Standard) Baptist âCompanion Tune Book Trusteesâ, entitled Companion Tunes to Gadsbyâs Hymnbook, which went into several edns from its original printing in… |
| Bortnianski (Bortnyansky), Dmitri Stepanovich (Dmitro Stepanovych) |
b Gloukoff (Hlukiv), Ukraine 1751, d St Petersburg, Russia 1825. A boy with a fine voice, probably first attending Hlukiv Choir Sch, whom Catherine the Great arranged to be trained by Galuppi at St… |
| WĂŒrtemburg Gesangbuch (1784) |
A volume (with a much longer full name) of 55 texts and an appendix with 14 tunes, now in the Berlin State Library. The book was used in the private chapel of the Duke of WĂŒrtemburg; its most notable… |
