John Wilson

21 January 1905—16 July 1992

Featured Tunes:

as arranger:

GENEVAN 98

Collections Edited/Assisted by Wilson:

The Clarendon Hymn Book (1936)

Hymns for Church and School (1964)

Hymns and Songs (1969)

Hymns for Celebration (1974)

Sixteen Hymns for Today for Use as Simple Anthems (1978)

Broadcast Praise (1981)

Hymns and Psalms (1983)

Twenty-one Hymns Old and New for Use as Simple Anthems (1985)

Hymnological Works (Selected):

John Wilson, “A link with Loys Bourgeois,” HSGBI Bulletin (Summer 1957), pp. 93–98: PDF

Roger North on Music: Being a Selection from His Essays Written During the Years c. 1695–1728 (London: Novello, 1959).

Short Companion to Hymns and Songs (1969)

“The tune ‘Lasst uns erfreuen’ as we know it,” HSGBI Bulletin, no. 150 (January 1981), pp. 194–200.

“Erik Routley: A tribute,” The Hymn, vol. 34, no. 1 (January 1983), pp. 18–19: HathiTrust

“Looking at hymn tunes: The objective factors,” Duty and Delight: Routley Remembered (Carol Stream, IL: Hope Publishing Co., 1985); republished by the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland as Occasional Paper, Second Series, No. 1 (June 1991).

“Handel’s tunes for Charles Wesley’s hymns: the Story Retold,” HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 11, no. 2 (May 1985), pp. 32–37.

“Handel and the hymn tune: I—Handel’s tunes for Charles Wesley’s hymns,” The Hymn, vol. 36, no. 4 (October 1985), pp. 18–23: HathiTrust

“Handel and the hymn tune: II—Some hymn tune arrangements,” The Hymn, vol. 37, no. 1 (January 1986), pp. 25–31: HathiTrust

“The evolution of the tune ANTIOCH,” HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 11, no. 5 (January 1986), pp. 107–114.

“The tune MONKLAND and John Antes,” HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 11, no. 12 (Oct. 1987), pp. 260–264.

Manuscripts:

Pratt Green Manuscripts, Durham University Library, Archives & Special Collections:
http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ark/32150_s1jq085j987.xml

Related Resources:

[Harry Eskew,] “An interview with John Wilson,” The Hymn, vol. 33, no. 4 (Oct. 1982), pp. 215–219: HathiTrust

Robin A. Leaver, “Hymn writers of today: John Wilson,” American Organist, vol. 17 (June 1983), pp. 38–39.

Harry Eskew, “John Wilson: Encourager of fine hymnody,” Journal of Church Music, vol. 29 (June 1987), pp. 7–11.

J.R. Watson & Kenneth Trickett, eds., “John Wilson,” Companion to Hymns and Psalms (Peterborough: Methodist Publishing House, 1988), p. 563.

Alan Luff & Bernard S. Massey, “John Wilson, 1905–92,” HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 13, no. 8 (October 1992), pp. 158–162.

Raymond Glover, “John Wilson,” The Hymnal 1982 Companion, vol. 2 (NY: Church Hymnal Corp., 1994), pp. 675–676.

Robin A. Leaver, “John Wilson: ‘Our generation’s most devoted encourager of hymnody,’’’ The Hymn, vol. 57, no. 4 (2006), pp. 20–24: HathiTrust

Maureen Harris, “John Whitridge Wilson,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology:
http://www.hymnology.co.uk/j/john-whitridge-wilson

John Wilson, Hymnary.org:
https://hymnary.org/person/Wilson_JohnW1905