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In 1843, He became active in promoting the Free Church Movement because a split had occurred in the established Church of Scotland. He was born on Decemin Edinburgh, Scotland. Horatius Bonar is by many considered to be one of Scotland’s most gifted evangelical ministers and hymn writers. 209) and “Father to Thee A Joyful Song We Raise” (No. 6), “Jesus the Very thought of Thee” (No.
He also wrote the music for hymns such as “Holy, Holy, Holy” (No. ” As is true of all of Dykes’ tunes, this music is characterized by the expressive quality of the typical Romanticism of that era. The hymn tune’s name, “Vox Dilecti, ” is Latin for “Voice of the Beloved. Dykes, noted English musician of the nineteenth century. The music for this text, was written in 1868 by John B. Stanza three-Look Upon My Light ( John 8:12) I looked and shall henceforth walk in that light. (John 4:10, 13-14) I came, drank, and life revived. Stanza one-Come to Me (Matthew 11:28) I came, I found rest and gladness. This hymn points to three of the Lord’s personal invitations to mankind, which are followed by human responses and their spiritual results: As music editor in the partnership he superintended the publication of more than 500 music books, and other services. He was assistant compiler with both Bradbury and Woodbury in their various publications, and in 1869 became bookmaker of the firm of Biglow and Main. He read music at sight when he was only 10 years old, and at 16 began writing hymn-tunes. Hubert Platt Main was born in Ridgefield, CT, Aug. He was a well respected composer of vocal and instrumental music and one of the greatest violinists of Europe. Louis Spohr was Director of the Court Theater Orchestra in Casellas, Prussia in the first half of the 1800’s. it is a tune of striking chords, but its shift of key to G natural (major) after the first four lines seems more for a choir performance than for a congregational hymn. “Vox Dilecti” by Dr Dykes, goes even further and writes the Master’s Voice in B flat minor-which is a sweeter tune than a sad one.
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It is gentle music throughout the first 15 bars, in alternate duet and quartet, utters the voice of Jesus with accent of the lines and the second portion completes the harmony in glad, full chorus-the answer of the human heart. Main from Franz Abt- in A flat, triple time. “Vox Jesu, ” from the Adante is one of the quartets of Louis Spohr (1784-1859), is a psalm-tune with good harmony, but not much feeling.Īn excellent tune for all the shades of expression in the hymn is the arrangement by Hubert P. It is a simple tune and the involuntary accent of its sextuple time, exactly reproducing the easy Iambic of the verses made it popular, and many old singers today will only use this music with “I heard the voice of Jesus say. The more ancient “Athens, ” by Felice Giardini (1716-1796), author of the “Italian Hymn, ” is used by many communities for Bonar’s hymn. He was the father of Francis Ridley Havergal. Mason in 1850 from a song written 4 years earlier by Reverend William Henry Havergal, Cannon of Avenue Worcester Cathedral, England. It is a good congregational psalmody, and suited to the sentiment, taking line by line, but it divides its stanzas into quatrains, which breaks the continuity. The old melody of “Evan, ” long a favorite and since known everywhere through the popularity given to it in the Gospel Hymns has been in many collections connected with the words. It is simple art beauty that a poet of culture makes by instinct. “Ingenious” seems hardly the right word for division so obviously natural and almost automatic. David Breed calls it “one of the most ingenious hymns in the language, ” referring to the fact that the invitation and response exactly split each stanza between them-song followed by counter song. Writing of the hymn, “I heard the voice, ” Dr. The peculiar richness of Bonar’s sacred songs very early created for them a warm welcome in Christian circles, and any spiritual lyric or poem with his name attached to it was sure to be read.ĭr. He inherited some of his poetic gifts from his grandfather, a clergyman who wrote several hymns, and it is told of Horatius that hymns used to “come to him” while riding on railroad trains.īorn in 1808 in Edinburgh, he was about 40 years old when he came back from a successful pastorate at Kelso to the city of his home and Alma Mater, and became Chalmers’ successor as minister of the Chalmers Memorial Church. Horatius Bonar of Scotland possessed the gift of producing vital and lasting spiritual verse more than any other writer of his generation.
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