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Author: Sylvia G. Dunstan

Sylvia Dunstan Born in 1955, Sylvia Dunstan attributes her love of song to her grandparents, who kept song alive in the family and entrusted Sylvia's formal musical education to one of the nuns at the local convent. Sylvia began writing songs in the early seventies and soon after met Sister Miriam Theresa Winter, who encouraged her to write songs based on Scripture. Sylvia eventually realized that her talents did not lay with the music and concentrated instead on the lyrics. She was further shepherded and encouraged by Alan Barthel. Her bachelor degree was earned from York University, and she received graduate degrees in theology and divinity from Emmanuel College, Toronto. In 1980, she was ordained by the Hamilton Conference of the U… Go to person page >

Tune

ENGELBERG

Charles V. Stanford (b. Dublin, Ireland, 1852; d. Marylebone, London, England, 1924) composed ENGELBERG as a setting for William W. How's "For All the Saints" (505). The tune was published in the 1904 edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern with no less than six different musical settings. It is clearly…

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SINE NOMINE

Ralph Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) composed SINE NOMINE for this text and published it in the English Hymnal in 1906. Vaughan Williams wrote two harmonizations¬–one for unison stanzas and one for choral stanzas. The tune's title means "without name" and follows the Renaissance tradition of naming c…

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Timeline

Instances

Instances (8)TextImageAudioScore
Celebrating Grace Hymnal #481Image
Church Hymnary, Fourth Edition #683Text
Common Praise #598
Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition #469
Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #925Image
Sing! A New Creation #294TextImageAudio
Voices United: The Hymn and Worship Book of The United Church of Canada #420Text
Worship and Rejoice #553TextImage