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What was Thy holy joy, O Lord

Author: Mary Bradford Whiting Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: RESIGNATION

HANFORD

Appears in 167 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Sir A. Sullivan Incipit: 55555 43266 66654 Used With Text: What was Thy holy joy, O Lord

RESIGNATION

Appears in 41 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Haydn Incipit: 17121 74332 32317 Used With Text: What was Thy holy joy, O Lord

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What was Thy holy joy, O Lord

Author: Mary Bradford Whiting Hymnal: The Day School Hymn Book #141 (1896) Languages: English Tune Title: RESIGNATION

What was Thy holy joy, O Lord

Author: Mary B. Whiting Hymnal: The Church Missionary Hymn Book #152 (1899) Languages: English Tune Title: HANFORD

1842 - 1900 Person Name: Sir A. Sullivan Composer of "HANFORD" in The Church Missionary Hymn Book Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas. Bert Polman

Joseph Haydn

1732 - 1809 Person Name: Haydn Composer of "RESIGNATION" in The Day School Hymn Book Franz Joseph Haydn (b. Rohrau, Austria, 1732; d. Vienna, Austria, 1809) Haydn's life was relatively uneventful, but his artistic legacy was truly astounding. He began his musical career as a choirboy in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, spent some years in that city making a precarious living as a music teacher and composer, and then served as music director for the Esterhazy family from 1761 to 1790. Haydn became a most productive and widely respected composer of symphonies, chamber music, and piano sonatas. In his retirement years he took two extended tours to England, which resulted in his "London" symphonies and (because of G. F. Handel's influence) in oratorios. Haydn's church music includes six great Masses and a few original hymn tunes. Hymnal editors have also arranged hymn tunes from various themes in Haydn's music. Bert Polman

Mary Bradford Whiting

b. 1864 Person Name: Mary B. Whiting Author of "What was Thy holy joy, O Lord" in The Church Missionary Hymn Book Whiting, Mary Bradford, was born at Bloomfield, Essex. She is daughter of the Rev. J. B. Whiting, Vicar of St. Luke's, Ramsgate. To her father's Hymns for the Church Catholic, 1882, she contributed:— 1. Come ye yourselves apart and rest awhile. The way is weary, &c. Holy Communion. 2. O Sun of truth and glory. Morning. 3. O word of love! O word of life. Holy Scripture. 4. There was beauty on the sea. Creation. 5. Time is swiftly passing o'er us. New Year. 6. To Thee, Creator, in Whose love. Holy Trinity. 7. What was the holy joy, O Lord. Work. The best of these hymns are Nos. 1 and 7, and all are worthy of attention. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ===================== Whiting, Mary B., p. 1276, ii. In C. W. A. Brooke's Additional Hymns, 1903, the following by Miss Whiting are given: (1) "Lord of Might, our land's Defender" (National Hymn), and (2), "To mourn our dead we gather here " (Burial). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)