New English Hymnal
Encyclopedia
The New English Hymnal is a hymn
book and liturgical
source, aimed towards the Church of England
, first published in 1986. It was published by the Canterbury Press (now SCM Canterbury Press). The copyright is held by The English Hymnal Company Limited. It is a successor to, and published in the same style as, the 1906 English Hymnal
. It inherits much music from the earlier book, and although a few hymns are dropped many newer or re-written hymns are added, most of which had previously appeared in the intervening supplement English Praise. Although the words of several hymns have been altered slightly and not necessarily for the better, it none the less enjoys continuing favour in a considerable number of cathedrals and collegiate chapels world-wide; its extensive provision of hymns for saints' days and mid-week religious festivals has proved popular with those schools still maintaining hymn-singing in daily acts of worship.
The then chairman of the English Hymnal Company, George Timms, was its general editor. The musical editor was Anthony Caesar
with significant assistance from Arthur Hutchings
, Christopher Dearnley and Michael Fleming.
Hymn
A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification...
book and liturgical
Liturgy
Liturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...
source, aimed towards the Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
, first published in 1986. It was published by the Canterbury Press (now SCM Canterbury Press). The copyright is held by The English Hymnal Company Limited. It is a successor to, and published in the same style as, the 1906 English Hymnal
English Hymnal
The English Hymnal was published in 1906 for the Church of England under the editorship of Percy Dearmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The preface to the hymnal began with the statement, "A collection of the best hymns in the English language." Much of the contents was used for the first time at St...
. It inherits much music from the earlier book, and although a few hymns are dropped many newer or re-written hymns are added, most of which had previously appeared in the intervening supplement English Praise. Although the words of several hymns have been altered slightly and not necessarily for the better, it none the less enjoys continuing favour in a considerable number of cathedrals and collegiate chapels world-wide; its extensive provision of hymns for saints' days and mid-week religious festivals has proved popular with those schools still maintaining hymn-singing in daily acts of worship.
The then chairman of the English Hymnal Company, George Timms, was its general editor. The musical editor was Anthony Caesar
Anthony Caesar
Canon Anthony Douglass Caesar CVO, MA, MusB , FRCO born in 1924, is an English clergyman, organist and composer. He was a boy chorister in the Winchester Cathedral Choir under Dr Harold Rhodes, who directed choir rehearsals in the short street known as "Dome Alley", the title later on of one of...
with significant assistance from Arthur Hutchings
Arthur Hutchings
Arthur James Bramwell Hutchings was professor of music at the University of Durham, England. He wrote extensively on topics as varied as nineteenth-century English church music, Schubert, Edmund Rubbra, and baroque concertos; but his most famous work was the Companion to Mozart's Piano Concertos,...
, Christopher Dearnley and Michael Fleming.