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In the Beginning

Author: Hanna Lam; Sietze Buning Meter: 11.9.11.9 Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: In the beginning the whole world was gloomy Topics: Songs for Children Bible Songs; Creation; Word of God Scripture: Genesis 1 Used With Tune: IN HET BEGIN

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IN HET BEGIN

Meter: 11.9.11.9 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wim ter Burg; Bert Polman Tune Key: F Major Used With Text: In the Beginning

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In the Beginning

Author: Hanna Lam; Sietze Buning; Sietze Buning Hymnal: With Heart and Voice #1 (1989) Meter: 11.9.11.9 First Line: In the beginning the whole world was gloomy Topics: Bible Songs; Descants Scripture: Genesis 1 Languages: English Tune Title: IN HET BEGIN
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In the Beginning

Author: Hanna Lam; Sietze Buning Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #151 (1987) Meter: 11.9.11.9 First Line: In the beginning the whole world was gloomy Topics: Songs for Children Bible Songs; Creation; Word of God Scripture: Genesis 1 Languages: English Tune Title: IN HET BEGIN

In the Beginning

Hymnal: Scripture Song Database #1799 (2008) First Line: [In the Beginning] Scripture: John 1:16 Languages: English

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Stanley M. Wiersma

1930 - 1986 Author (st. 7) of "In the Beginning" Pseudonym: Sietze Buning ********** Stanley Marvin Wiersma (b. Orange City, IA, 1930; d. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1986) was a poet and professor of English at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 1959 until his sudden death in 1986. He attended Calvin as an underĀ­graduate and received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1959. His love for the Genevan psalms is reflected in the two books of poetry for which he is most widely known: Purpaleanie and Other Permutations (1978) and Style and Class (1982), both written under the pseudonym Sietze Buning. He also wrote More Than the Ear Discovers: God in the Plays of Christopher Fry and translated many Dutch poems and hymn texts into English, including the children's hymns published in All Will Be New (1982). Bert Polman

Bertus Frederick Polman

1945 - 2013 Person Name: Bert Polman Harmonizer of "IN HET BEGIN" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Bert Frederick Polman (b. Rozenburg, Zuid Holland, the Netherlands, 1945; d. Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 1, 2013) was chair of the Music Department at Calvin College and senior research fellow for the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. Dr. Bert studied at Dordt College (BA 1968), the University of Minnesota (MA 1969, PhD in musicology 1981), and the Institute for Christian Studies. Dr. Bert was a longtime is professor of music at Redeemer College in Ancaster, Ontario, and organist at Bethel Christian Reformed Church, Waterdown, Ontario. His teaching covered a wide range of courses in music theory, music history, music literature, and worship, and Canadian Native studies. His research specialty was Christian hymnody. He was also an organist, a frequent workshop leader at music and worship conferences, and contributor to journals such as The Hymn and Reformed Worship. Dr. Bert was co-editor of the Psalter Hymnal Handbook (1989), and served on the committees that prepared Songs for Life (1994) and Sing! A New Creation (2001), both published by CRC Publications. Emily Brink

Wim ter Burg

1914 - 1995 Composer of "IN HET BEGIN" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray)