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For All The Saints Who Showed Your Love

Author: John Bell, b. 1949 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 9 hymnals First Line: For all the saints that showed your love Topics: Faith Used With Tune: OLD HUNDREDTH

O WALY WALY

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 205 hymnals Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51232 16551 71234 Used With Text: For All the Saints

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,896 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Louis Bourgeois, 1510-1561; Randall DeBruyn, b. 1947 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11765 12333 32143 Used With Text: For All The Saints Who Showed Your Love

WELLS HOUSE

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: David Iliff (b. 1939) Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 13445 65156 77112 Used With Text: For all the saints who showed your love

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For All the Saints Who've Shown Your Love

Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Hymnal: Worship (4th ed.) #892 (2011) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: All Saints Languages: English Tune Title: O WALY WALY

For All the Saints Who've Shown Your Love

Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Hymnal: Gather (3rd ed.) #885 (2011) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Faith; Heaven; Holiness; Humility; Kingdom/Reign of God; Saints; Thanksgiving; Witness Languages: English Tune Title: O WALY WALY

For All the Saints Who’ve Shown Your Love

Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Hymnal: Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition #786 (2004) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: For all the saiths who've shown your love Topics: Holy Women; Holy Men Languages: English Tune Title: O WALY WALY

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John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John Bell, b. 1949 Author of "For All The Saints Who Showed Your Love" in Sing! A New Creation John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink

Louis Bourgeois

1510 - 1561 Person Name: Louis Bourgeois, 1510-1561 Composer of "OLD HUNDREDTH" in Sing! A New Creation Louis Bourgeois (b. Paris, France, c. 1510; d. Paris, 1561). In both his early and later years Bourgeois wrote French songs to entertain the rich, but in the history of church music he is known especially for his contribution to the Genevan Psalter. Apparently moving to Geneva in 1541, the same year John Calvin returned to Geneva from Strasbourg, Bourgeois served as cantor and master of the choristers at both St. Pierre and St. Gervais, which is to say he was music director there under the pastoral leadership of Calvin. Bourgeois used the choristers to teach the new psalm tunes to the congregation. The extent of Bourgeois's involvement in the Genevan Psalter is a matter of scholarly debate. Calvin had published several partial psalters, including one in Strasbourg in 1539 and another in Geneva in 1542, with melodies by unknown composers. In 1551 another French psalter appeared in Geneva, Eighty-three Psalms of David, with texts by Marot and de Beze, and with most of the melodies by Bourgeois, who supplied thirty four original tunes and thirty-six revisions of older tunes. This edition was republished repeatedly, and later Bourgeois's tunes were incorporated into the complete Genevan Psalter (1562). However, his revision of some older tunes was not uniformly appreciated by those who were familiar with the original versions; he was actually imprisoned overnight for some of his musical arrangements but freed after Calvin's intervention. In addition to his contribution to the 1551 Psalter, Bourgeois produced a four-part harmonization of fifty psalms, published in Lyons (1547, enlarged 1554), and wrote a textbook on singing and sight-reading, La Droit Chemin de Musique (1550). He left Geneva in 1552 and lived in Lyons and Paris for the remainder of his life. Bert Polman