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What can little ones like me
Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: [What can little ones like me]
What can little ones like me
What can little ones like me
Hymnal: Praise in Song #189 (1888) Languages: English Tune Title: [What can little ones like me]
What can little ones like me
What can little ones like me
Hymnal: Sunday School Service Book and Hymnal #173 (1885) Languages: English Tune Title: FERRIER
What can little ones like me
John Bacchus Dykes
1823 - 1876 Person Name: Rev. J. B. Dykes Composer of "[What can little ones like me]" in Praise in Song As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern.
Bert Polman
John Bacchus Dykes
