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David Dargie

b. 1937 Hymnal Title: Halle Halle Transcriber of "[Thuma mina]" in Halle Halle 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/

Anders Nyberg

Hymnal Title: In Every Corner Sing Alterer of "Thuma mina (Send me, Lord)" in In Every Corner Sing

K. B. Notman

Person Name: Notman KB Hymnal Title: In Every Corner Sing Arranger of "[Thuma mina, thuma mina]" in In Every Corner Sing

Ljungsbro Parkman

Hymnal Title: In Every Corner Sing Arranger of "[Thuma mina, thuma mina]" in In Every Corner Sing

Lars Parkman

Hymnal Title: In Every Corner Sing Arranger of "[Thuma mina, thuma mina]" in In Every Corner Sing

John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Hymnal Title: RitualSong Transcriber of "[Thuma mina]" in RitualSong John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink

María Eugenia Cornou

b. 1969 Person Name: María Eugenia Cornou, b. 1969 Hymnal Title: Santo, Santo, Santo Translator (Spanish) of "Thuma mina (Send Me, Jesus) (Jesucristo, envíame)" in Santo, Santo, Santo