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Author: Christopher Idle Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Let God arise! His enemies by gone Lyrics: 1 Let God arise! His enemies be gone, melting in fear before the Holy One. Make known the LORD, and sound his name aloud to praise the King who rides upon the cloud. 2 Father and judge, he gave the world his law with freedom, love, and justice for the poor. God spoke the word, and faithful was the band of those who took the truth to ev'ry land. 3 See God ascend, with captives as his prize, and gifts for all who shall in him arise. Bless day by day the living God who saves, who raises up his people from their graves. 4 Draw near the throne: musicians, lead our song! All nations, tribes, and races join the throng. All strength is his! The rebels reign no more; he scatters all who take delight in war. 5 God rules on high, and mighty is his voice. To God be praise; in God we shall rejoice. Glory to God, Creator, Savior, friend, whose greatness, love, and wisdom never end. Topics: Ascension; Enemies; Jerusalem; Joy; Nature; Orphans; Peace; Questioning; Singing; Ten Commandments 3rd Commandment (Remember the Sabbath); Widows Scripture: Psalm 68 Used With Tune: NATIONAL HYMN

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SONG 46

Meter: 10.10 Appears in 47 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 13151 44432 27165 Used With Text: Let God Arise!

NATIONAL HYMN

Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 319 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George W. Warren Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 11234 31171 33356 Used With Text: Let God Arise

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Let God Arise!

Author: Christopher Idle Hymnal: Psalms for All Seasons #68C (2012) Meter: 10.10 First Line: Let God arise! His enemies be gone Lyrics: 1 (All) Let God arise! His enemies be gone and melt like wax before the holy One. 2 (Women) Make known the Lord, and sound his name aloud to praise the King who rides upon the cloud. 3 (Men) Father and judge, he gave the world his law with freedom, love and justice for the poor. 4 (Women) God marched ahead, strong shepherd of his flock; the heavens opened; earth in terror shook. 5 (Men) God spoke the word, and faithful was the band of those who took the truth to every land. 6 (All) See God ascend, with captives as his prize, and gifts for all who shall in him arise. 7 (Women) Bless day by day the living God who saves, who raises up his people from their graves. 8 (Men) Draw near his throne: musicians lead our song! All nations, tribes, and races join the throng. 9 (Women) All strength is his! The rebels reign no more; he scatters all who take delight in war. 10 (Men) God rules on high, and mighty is his voice: to God be praise; in God we shall rejoice. 11 (All) Glory to God, Creator, Savior, Friend, whose greatness, love, and wisdom never end. Topics: Biblical Names and Places Bashon; Biblical Names and Places Benjamin; Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Ethiopia; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jerusalem; Biblical Names and Places Judah; Biblical Names and Places Naphtali; Biblical Names and Places Sinai; Biblical Names and Places Zalmon; Biblical Names and Places Zebulun; Church Year Ascension of the Lord; Church Year Christ the King; Church Year Christmas; Church Year Easter; Church Year Pentecost; Emmaus Road; Enemies; Freedom; God Daily Experience of; God as Shepherd; God as Creator; God as Judge; God as King; God's Sovereignty; God's Wisdom; God's Word; God's Friendship; God's Gifts; God's Justice; God's law; God's Love; God's Name; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Presence; God's Promise of Redemption; God's Strength; Grave; Hymns of Praise; Jesus Christ Friend of Sinners; Jesus Christ Good Shepherd; Joy; Judgment; Life Stages Orphans; Life Stages Widows; Mission; Musical Instruments; Occasional Services Funerals; Peace; Processions; Questioning; Temple; Ten Commandments 4th Commandment (remember the Sabbath); The Needy; War and Revolution; Year A, Easter, 7th Sunday Scripture: Psalm 68 Languages: English Tune Title: SONG 46

Let God Arise

Author: Christopher Idle Hymnal: Christian Worship #68B (2021) Meter: 10.10.10.10 First Line: Let God arise! His enemies by gone Lyrics: 1 Let God arise! His enemies be gone, melting in fear before the Holy One. Make known the LORD, and sound his name aloud to praise the King who rides upon the cloud. 2 Father and judge, he gave the world his law with freedom, love, and justice for the poor. God spoke the word, and faithful was the band of those who took the truth to ev'ry land. 3 See God ascend, with captives as his prize, and gifts for all who shall in him arise. Bless day by day the living God who saves, who raises up his people from their graves. 4 Draw near the throne: musicians, lead our song! All nations, tribes, and races join the throng. All strength is his! The rebels reign no more; he scatters all who take delight in war. 5 God rules on high, and mighty is his voice. To God be praise; in God we shall rejoice. Glory to God, Creator, Savior, friend, whose greatness, love, and wisdom never end. Topics: Ascension; Enemies; Jerusalem; Joy; Nature; Orphans; Peace; Questioning; Singing; Ten Commandments 3rd Commandment (Remember the Sabbath); Widows Scripture: Psalm 68 Languages: English Tune Title: NATIONAL HYMN

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Christopher M. Idle

b. 1938 Person Name: Christopher Idle Author of "Let God Arise" in Christian Worship Christopher Martin Idle (b. Bromley, Kent, England, 1938) was educated at Elthan College, St. Peter's College, Oxford, and Clifton Theological College in Bristol, and was ordained in the Church of England. He served churches in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria; London; and Oakley, Suffolk; and recently returned to London, where he is involved in various hymnal projects. A prolific author of articles on the Christian's public responsibilities, Idle has also published The Lion Book of Favorite Hymns (1980) and at least one hundred of his own hymns and biblical paraphrases. Some of his texts first appeared in hymnals published by the Jubilate Group, with which he is associated. He was also editor of Anglican Praise (1987). In 1998 Hope Publishing released Light Upon the River, a collection of 279 of his psalm and hymn texts, along with suggested tunes, scripture references, and commentary. Bert Polman

Orlando Gibbons

1583 - 1625 Person Name: Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625 Composer of "SONG 46" in Psalms for All Seasons Orlando Gibbons (baptised 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625) was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods. He was a leading composer in the England of his day. Gibbons was born in Cambridge and christened at Oxford the same year – thus appearing in Oxford church records. Between 1596 and 1598 he sang in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, where his brother Edward Gibbons (1568–1650), eldest of the four sons of William Gibbons, was master of the choristers. The second brother Ellis Gibbons (1573–1603) was also a promising composer, but died young. Orlando entered the university in 1598 and achieved the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1606. James I appointed him a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, where he served as an organist from at least 1615 until his death. In 1623 he became senior organist at the Chapel Royal, with Thomas Tomkins as junior organist. He also held positions as keyboard player in the privy chamber of the court of Prince Charles (later King Charles I), and organist at Westminster Abbey. He died at age 41 in Canterbury of apoplexy, and a monument to him was built in Canterbury Cathedral. A suspicion immediately arose that Gibbons had died of the plague, which was rife in England that year. Two physicians who had been present at his death were ordered to make a report, and performed an autopsy, the account of which survives in The National Archives: We whose names are here underwritten: having been called to give our counsels to Mr. Orlando Gibbons; in the time of his late and sudden sickness, which we found in the beginning lethargical, or a profound sleep; out of which, we could never recover him, neither by inward nor outward medicines, & then instantly he fell in most strong, & sharp convulsions; which did wring his mouth up to his ears, & his eyes were distorted, as though they would have been thrust out of his head & then suddenly he lost both speech, sight and hearing, & so grew apoplectical & lost the whole motion of every part of his body, & so died. Then here upon (his death being so sudden) rumours were cast out that he did die of the plague, whereupon we . . . caused his body to be searched by certain women that were sworn to deliver the truth, who did affirm that they never saw a fairer corpse. Yet notwithstanding we to give full satisfaction to all did cause the skull to be opened in our presence & we carefully viewed the body, which we found also to be very clean without any show or spot of any contagious matter. In the brain we found the whole & sole cause of his sickness namely a great admirable blackness & syderation in the outside of the brain. Within the brain (being opened) there did issue out abundance of water intermixed with blood & this we affirm to be the only cause of his sudden death. His death was a shock to peers and the suddenness of his passing drew comment more for the haste of his burial – and of its location at Canterbury rather than the body being returned to London. His wife, Elizabeth, died a little over a year later, aged in her mid-30s, leaving Orlando's eldest brother, Edward, to care for the children left orphans by this event. Of these children only the eldest son, Christopher Gibbons, went on to become a musician. One of the most versatile English composers of his time, Gibbons wrote a quantity of keyboard works, around thirty fantasias for viols, a number of madrigals (the best-known being "The Silver Swan"), and many popular verse anthems. His choral music is distinguished by his complete mastery of counterpoint, combined with his wonderful gift for melody. Perhaps his most well known verse anthem is This is the record of John, which sets an Advent text for solo countertenor or tenor, alternating with full chorus. The soloist is required to demonstrate considerable technical facility at points, and the work at once expresses the rhetorical force of the text, whilst never being demonstrative or bombastic. He also produced two major settings of Evensong, the Short Service and the Second Service. The former includes a beautifully expressive Nunc dimittis, while the latter is an extended composition, combining verse and full sections. Gibbons's full anthems include the expressive O Lord, in thy wrath, and the Ascension Day anthem O clap your hands together for eight voices. He contributed six pieces to the first printed collection of keyboard music in England, Parthenia (to which he was by far the youngest of the three contributors), published in about 1611. Gibbons's surviving keyboard output comprises some 45 pieces. The polyphonic fantasia and dance forms are the best represented genres. Gibbons's writing exhibits full mastery of three- and four-part counterpoint. Most of the fantasias are complex, multisectional pieces, treating multiple subjects imitatively. Gibbons's approach to melody in both fantasias and dances features a capability for almost limitless development of simple musical ideas, on display in works such as Pavane in D minor and Lord Salisbury's Pavan and Galliard. In the 20th century, the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould championed Gibbons's music, and named him as his favorite composer. Gould wrote of Gibbons's hymns and anthems: "ever since my teen-age years this music ... has moved me more deeply than any other sound experience I can think of." In one interview, Gould compared Gibbons to Beethoven and Webern: ...despite the requisite quota of scales and shakes in such half-hearted virtuoso vehicles as the Salisbury Galliard, one is never quite able to counter the impression of music of supreme beauty that lacks its ideal means of reproduction. Like Beethoven in his last quartets, or Webern at almost any time, Gibbons is an artist of such intractable commitment that, in the keyboard field, at least, his works work better in one's memory, or on paper, than they ever can through the intercession of a sounding-board. To this day, Gibbons's obit service is commemorated every year in King's College Chapel, Cambridge. --wikipedia.org

George William Warren

1828 - 1902 Person Name: George W. Warren Composer of "NATIONAL HYMN" in Christian Worship George W. Warren (b. Albany, NY, 1828; d. New York, 1902) received his general education at Racine College in Wisconsin, but as a musician he was largely self-trained. An organist in a number of Episcopal churches, he played the organ for thirty years (1870-1900) at St. Thomas Church in New York City. Warren composed anthems and liturgical service music; his hymn tunes were collected in Warren's Hymns and Tunes as Sung in St. Thomas Church (1888). Bert Polman