| John Barnard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1948 London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | part-time school teacher of German. |
| Known for | writing the hymn tune Guiting Power to Christ triumphant, ever reigning. |
| Religion | Christian - Anglican |
| Website | |
| http://www.jubilate.co.uk/people/john_barnard | |
John Barnard (born 1948) is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO), an Associate of the Royal School of Church Music (ARSCM) and an active developer of church music as a composer, arranger, choir director and organist in North West London, England. He is on the Council of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland and has been active in helping to assemble such publications as Hymns for Today's Church, Carols for Today and Psalms for Today. He has been Director of Music at a series of high profile churches, which include Emmanuel Church (Northwood), St Alban's Church (North Harrow), John Keble Church (Mill Hill) and St John the Evangelist Church (Stanmore). He returned to John Keble Church in September 2010, following the appointment of Canon Chris Chivers as Vicar.
Barnard was educated at The John Lyon School, Harrow (JLS) between 1959 and 1966 where he excelled as a pupil and later went up to Cambridge to study Modern Languages at Selwyn College.
He was and remains very fond of JLS and was offered a teaching job there shortly after leaving Cambridge. He remained as a dedicated and loyal German and French teacher, often organising and leading school trips to Switzerland, and spent the last 15 of his 28 years’ tenure as Deputy Headmaster. Barnard's own father was previously Head Boy at JLS. In 2002 he taught part-time at Aldenham School, Elstree and The Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith. Latterly, he finished working at Aldenham School, however continues to work at The Godolphin and Latymer School where he teaches German. His affiliation to JLS remains as strong as ever through the Old Lyonian Association, acting as the primary port of call between the Association and recent leavers.
His musical activities are his hobby. He has written music and arrangements for hymns and a number of arrangements for spirituals. Arguably his most famous work is his hymn tune Guiting Power, which is gaining in popularity in services and usually provides the music for Michael Saward's hymn Christ triumphant, ever reigning, published for example as Hymn No. 336 in Hope's new Worship and Rejoice hymnal (2001) and Hymn No. 173 in Hymns for Today's Church, Second Edition (1987).
Barnard has been involved in directing the music for BBC Radio 2's Sunday Half Hour. In 2006, he was a judge for a BBC hymn-writing competition, for which he composed the tunes Kirknewton and Gowanbank for two of the winning entries.
The vast majority of John Barnard's hymn tunes are named after villages or towns in the United Kingdom; for example, Guiting Power is a village in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire.
His compositions are represented in the USA and Canada by the Hope Publishing Company and in the United Kingdom by Jubilate Hymns and Oxford University Press.
Asthall (7 8 7 8)
Barnard Gate (11 10 11 10 Dactylic)
Bekesbourne (10 10 7 7)
Bishops Cannings (6 6 6 6 8 8)
Bless the Lord (Irregular)
Buttermere (LM)
Calypso Praise (8 8 8 8 10 8)
Checkendon (8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 7 7 8 7)
Chedworth (10 10 10 10)
Chedworth (10 11 11 11)
Christingle Praise (7 7 7 5 7 7 5)
Coln Saint Dennis (9 9 10 9)
Coulston (4 6 8 8 4 4)
Edington (10 10 4 4 10 10)
Ewelme (8 8 8 4)
Eythorne (7 6 8 6 8 6)
Fossebridge (LM)
Freshford (12 12 12 12)
God in is Bethlehem (8 7 8 7 and Refrain Trochaic)
God is the King (Irregular)
Gowanbank (8 7 8 7 D)
Great Cheverell (10 10 7 8 10)
Great Stanmore (10 10 10 10)
Guiting Power (8 5 8 5 7 9)
Harrow Weald (5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4)
Heanish (8 7 8 7 D Trochaic)
Kirknewton (11 10 11 10 D)
Little Barrington (4 4 4 4 4 4 4)
Little Stanmore (8 8 8 6)
Long Crendon (11 11 11 5)
Ludlow (11 11 9 10)
Manton Hollow (8 8 8 4)
O Sing to the Lord (Irregular)
Patrixbourne (8 7 8 7 7 7)
Riseley (8 6 8 6 6)
Roxeth (7 7 7 4 D)
Stanton (CM)
Stanton Harcourt (6 6 6 6 3 4 5)
Steeple Ashton (SM)
Swyncombe (6 6 8 4)
Temple Guiting (6 6 10 5)
Tenhead (5 6 6 4)
Upton Cheyney (7 4 7 4 D)
Upton Scudamore (10 10 10 10)
Wealdstone (8 7 8 7 D Trochaic)
West Ashton (10 10 10 10 Iambic)
Widford (13 13 7 7 13)
Wings of Joy (6 4 4 6 4)
Withington (8 6 8 8 8 6)
Yanworth (10 10 10 10 Iambic)
You are my Refuge (10 7 6 6 10)