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2 “Holy, Holy, Holy” Hymns Ancient and Modern in 1861, the text “Holy, Holy, Holy” has consistently been set to the Reginald Heber, an Anglican clergyman, wrote the tune NICAEA. Composed by John Bacchus Dykes, a hymn “Holy, Holy, Holy” for use on Trinity Sunday, child prodigy who at the age of ten became the the Sunday after Pentecost. Part of Heber’s collec- organist at his father’s parish church in Kingston tion of hymns for use with the Anglican Church upon Hull, NICAEA was written especially for “Holy, calendar, “Holy, Holy, Holy” was acclaimed by the Holy, Holy.” Dykes was born in 1823, the year British Poet Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as Heber left England for Calcutta. He studied at “the world’s greatest hymn.” It is perhaps the best Cambridge, took ordination in 1847, continued his known of more than 50 hymn texts by Heber. education in music at the University of Durham, (Others include “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains,” and served various Durham congregations. The and “Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morn- Oxford Movement, with its High Church tenden- It is illegal to photocopy this music. ing.”) cies and revitalization of Anglican worship, beck- The son of an Anglican rector, Heber came oned Dykes who soon became one of its principal from an illustrious Tory family noted through gen- composers. He provided some 300 singable tunes erations for loyalty to Church and crown. During Holy, Holy, Holy Holy, Holy, for England’s prolific hymn writers. Dykes’ tunes his years at Oxford, he distinguished himself in the quickly became standard repertory for major Ameri- study of Latin and Greek and was elected in 1804 a can hymnals. Fellow of All Souls College. He cultivated his inter- From its first publication in North America in est in literature and writing in correspondence with K. Lee Scott • 425-612 Selah Publishing Co., Inc. 1850, “Holy, Holy, Holy” set to NICAEA HAS been Sir Walter Scott, Robert Southey and others but included in more than 1,200 American hymnals. In devoted most of his time to the study of theology. the vast majority, the text and tune are identical to Ordained in 1807, Heber was appointed by his the definitive rendering in the 1861 English hym- older brother to the church at Hodnet, his family nal, Hymns Ancient and Modern. Over the years, living. In Hodnet, Heber wrote his hymns. Americans have also published the hymn many Heber made congregational singing a priority. times in translation, most frequently in German, An Anglican with impeccable theological and social Swedish and Spanish. Many constituencies, some credentials, he helped make congregational song surprising—Liberal Catholics (1921), Unitarians respectable in the Anglican Church. Dismayed by (1857), Jehovah’s Witnesses (1921), Sweden- the quality and apparent irrelevance of psalm sing- borgians (1899)—have at one time or another ing to the sermon and liturgy, he began writing and adapted this text and tune for use in worship. collecting hymns with the goal of preparing a hym- nal organized around the Church of England’s K. Lee Scott Church Year. He sought (unsuccessfully) official sanction for a collection of hymns. Heber held K. Lee Scott (b.1950) is widely knownthroughout strong opinions about the language of hymns, ob- the United States as a conductor and composer of jecting vehemently to addressing God “with ditties choral music. His more than 250 published compo- This document is provided for review purposes only. of embraces and passion, or in language which it sitions, arrangements, and editions are represented would be disgraceful in an earthly sovereign to in the catalogues of 15 publishing companies. In endure.” His growing corpus of hymns modeled his addition to many choral works, he has written an conviction that such expressions werefor always review “pro- opera and only has published works for organ, solo fane.” voice, and brass. Meanwhile, Heber’s many abilities brought him A graduate of the University of Alabama School Church preferment. In 1823, he was named Bishop of Music with two degrees in choral music under of Calcutta, a jurisdiction which then stretched as the tutelage of Frederick Prentice, Scott has served Order from your favorite dealer or at www.selahpub.com (Or call 800-852-6172 in the U.S. and Canada) far as New Zealand. In the midst of a grueling but as an adjunct faculty member at both the University rewarding schedule, Heber continued to write of Alabama School of Music and the University of hymns and to work on a hymnal. “Holy, Holy, Holy” Alabama at Birmingham Department of Music. His was first published in 1826, the year of Heber’s appearances as guest conductor and clinician have premature death, in A Selection of Psalms and taken him throughout the United States, to Canada, Hymns for the Parish Church of Banbury. The and Africa. hymn appeared again in Heber’s posthumous col- lection, Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly This hymn arrangement is sponsored by the Church Service of the Year (1827). It has been sung Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals in the United States at least since 1850 when it was (ISAE) at Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187, included in Cantica Laudis, or The American Book through a grant from The Lilly Endowment. The of Church Music. ISAE exists to encourage and support research Since the publication of the first edition of on evangelical Christianity in North America. 3 Holy, Holy, Holy SATB, organ, opt. congregation, brass quartet, timpani, and percussion NICAEA, John B. 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