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Christ Is King! Let Earthly Powers

Author: Sylvia G. Dunstan Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Government; Confessing Faith; Government; Jesus Christ Ascension of; Jesus Christ Images and Names of; Praise Scripture: Psalm 45:2-7 Used With Tune: IRBY

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ST. LEONARD

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 104 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. C. Bach, 1642-1703 Tune Key: e minor or modal Incipit: 31251 27567 11223 Used With Text: Christ is King!

IRBY

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 298 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry T. Smart Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 57111 71221 13533 Used With Text: Christ Is King! Let Earthly Powers

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Christ Is King! Let Earthly Powers

Author: Sylvia G. Dunstan Hymnal: Voices Together #410 (2020) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Topics: Government; Confessing Faith; Government; Jesus Christ Ascension of; Jesus Christ Images and Names of; Praise Scripture: Psalm 45:2-7 Tune Title: IRBY

Christ is King!

Author: Sylvia G. Dunstan, 1955-1993 Hymnal: The Book of Praise #272 (1997) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 First Line: Christ is King! Let earthly powers Topics: Church Year Ascension/Reign of Christ; Grâce; Jesus Christ Servant; Jesus Christ Lamb of God; Jesus Christ Cornerstone / Foundation; Justice Scripture: Luke 1:51-53 Languages: English Tune Title: ST. LEONARD

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Sylvia G. Dunstan

1955 - 1993 Author of "Christ Is King! Let Earthly Powers" in Voices Together After a brief, arduous battle with liver cancer, Canadian Sylvia Dunstan died in 1993 at the age of 38. For thirteen years, Dunstan had served the United Church of Canada as a parish minister and prison chaplain. She is remembered by those who knew her for her passion for those in need, her gift of writing, and her love of liturgy. Sing! A New Creation

Henry Thomas Smart

1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry T. Smart Composer of "IRBY" in Voices Together Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known). Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). Bert Polman