Description: | Melody by P.C. Buck.
Percy Carter Buck (1871-1974) was trained in organ and served as organist of Worcester College, Oxford, Wells Cathedral, and Bristol Cathedral. He was professor of music at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1910 to 1920. In 1925 he was appointed King Edward Professor of Music at the University of London and also taught at the Royal College of Music. He was knighted in 1937. He wrote several volumes, including The Scope of Music, and with MacPherson edited The English Psalter (1925) and singly edited The Oxford Song Book (1929)
Translated text by J.M. Neale.
John Mason Neale (24 January 1818 – 6 August 1866) was an Anglican priest, scholar and hymn-writer. He was strongly high church in his sympathies, and had to endure a good deal of opposition, including a fourteen years' inhibition by his bishop.
Neale translated the Eastern liturgies into English, and wrote a mystical and devotional commentary on the Psalms.
However, he is best known as a hymn writer and, especially, translator, having enriched English hymnody with many ancient and mediaeval hymns translated from Latin and Greek.
More than anyone else, he made English-speaking congregations aware of the centuries-old tradition of Latin, Greek, Russian, and Syrian hymns. The 1875 edition of the Hymns Ancient and Moderncontains 58 of his translated hymns; The English Hymnal (1906) contains 63 of his translated hymns and six original hymns by Neale. |