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Anonymous

Person Name: Unknown Topics: Short Chants and Liturgical Responses Composer of "[Alleluia, alleluia]" in In Every Corner Sing In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Pablo D. Sosa

1933 - 2020 Topics: Short Chants and Liturgical Responses Composer of "[Gloria, gloria gloria]" in In Every Corner Sing Pablo Sosa (b. 1933 - d. 2020) grew up and was educated in Argentina, the U.S. (Westminster Choir College), and Germany. For years he pastored a large Methodist congregation in Buenos Aires, Argentina while composing songs, leading choirs, editing hymnals, producing religious broadcasts, and teaching liturgy and hymnology at a seminary. Meanwhile, life in Argentina pushed him to question his assumptions about what’s best for congregational singing. During Argentina’s “dirty war,” two young women from his church were disappeared, possibly for working among the poor. As Catholic and Protestant churches hesitated whether to speak out, remain silent, or support the government, many people lost faith. Economic meltdown after the war plunged many middle-class Argentinians into poverty. Sosa’s growing social awareness widened his vision for “lifting up hope with a song.” He often describes worship as “the fiesta of the faithful,” where all are welcome and all music is seen as “part of the ‘song of the earth,’ which answers the psalmist’s call ‘Sing joyfully to God, all the earth!’ (Psalm 98:4).” Whether in his home church, Iglesia Evangélica Metodista La Tercera (Third Methodist Church) in Buenos Aires, or at churches or conferences around the world, he urges people, “Put your body into worship!” And he reminds them of the biblical connection between justice and worship. CICW Website Bio (http://www.calvin.edu/worship)

Geoff Weaver

b. 1943 Topics: Short Chants and Liturgical Responses Arranger of "[Lord, have mercy]" in In Every Corner Sing

Dinah Reindorf

Topics: Short Chants and Liturgical Responses Composer of "[Kyrie eleison]" in In Every Corner Sing

David Dargie

b. 1937 Topics: Short Chants and Liturgical Responses Transcriber of "[Thuma mina, thuma mina]" in In Every Corner Sing A Roman Catholic priest for many years, Fr. Dargie observed that many priests resorted to using European or North American melodies they knew and ignored the rich heritage of South African music, especially the music of the Xhosa and Zulu peoples. For example, the venerable Latin chant “Tantum Ergo Sacramentum” (a communion hymn attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas), was sung in one parish to “My Darling Clementine”! For Fr. Dargie, a white South African of Scots-Irish lineage, part of the liberation of black South Africans from the political oppression of apartheid was to encourage them to sing their Christian faith with their own music rather than in the musical idioms of their colonial oppressors. In the decades immediately following the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), Fr. Dargie was among many who encouraged Africans to find their own voice in congregational singing. He sponsored workshops throughout southern Africa with indigenous musicians, giving them specific texts from the Mass and asking them to compose music to fit the melodic contour and rhythmic structure of the words. Since most African languages are tonal, a melodic shape emerges directly from speaking the text. Stephen Molefe was among the first South African musicians that Fr. Dargie worked with in these workshops. --www.gbod.org/

Dumisani Maraire

1943 - 1999 Person Name: Abraham Maraire Topics: Short Chants and Liturgical Responses Composer of "[Alleluia, alleluia]" in In Every Corner Sing

Lars Parkman

Topics: Short Chants and Liturgical Responses Arranger of "[Thuma mina, thuma mina]" in In Every Corner Sing

Arlo D. Duba

b. 1929 Person Name: Arlo D Duba Topics: Short Chants and Liturgical Responses Composer of "[My prayers rise like incense]" in In Every Corner Sing Arlo Duba (b. 1929) was an administrator at Princeton Seminary and is professor of worship (emeritus) and former dean at the University of Dubuque (Iowa) Theological School. Sing! A New Creation, 2002