Allchin, G.

Japanese: オールチン,G. - おーるちん
Allchin, G.

…Original hymns were also popular in the United States, where many famous songs were written in the 19th century, as well as gospel songs and African-American spirituals. Japanese hymns have made rapid progress since the first hymnbook appeared in 1874 (Meiji 7). In 1903, the Hymn Committee was organized, and the Japanese literature scholar Umenosuke Bessho (1871-1945) and the British missionary G. Allchin (1852-1935) unified the songbooks that had been compiled separately by each group, resulting in the creation of the Hymns, which included 483 songs in total. In response to the demands of the times, Shuichi Tsugawa (1896-1971) and others published a substantially expanded and revised Hymns in 1931, which included original Japanese poems and compositions by Japanese people for the first time. …

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…アメリカにおいても創作賛美歌が盛んで,19世紀に数々の名曲を残すとともに,福音唱歌(ゴスペル・ソング)や黒人霊歌が生み出された。 日本の賛美歌は,1874年(明治7)に最初の賛美歌集が現れて以来,急速な進を遂げ,1903年〈賛美歌委員会〉が組織され,国文学者,別所梅之助(1871‐1945)やイギリスの宣教師G.オールチン(1852‐1935)らによって従来各派で別途に編集されていた歌集が一本化されて,全483編を収録した《さんびか》が誕生した。時代の要請とともに津川主一(1896‐1971)らによって31年大幅な増補改訂が行われた《賛美歌》が出版され,この版には日本語の創作詩,日本人の作曲も初めて収録された。…

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