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Take up the song, and sing the praise of God

Author: Rae E. Whitney (b. 1927) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Creation; Environmental concern; Joy; Justice and Peace; Music and Song; Praise Scripture: Genesis 1 Used With Tune: WOODLANDS

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TAKE UP THE SONG

Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Alfred Victor Fedak (b. 1953) Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51715 56765 51715 Used With Text: Take up the song, and sing the praise of God

WOODLANDS

Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 97 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Walter Greatorex (1877-1949) Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 55515 63452 35111 Used With Text: Take up the song, and sing the praise of God

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Take up the song, and sing the praise of God

Author: Rae E. Whitney (b. 1927) Hymnal: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #171 (2005) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Topics: Our Response to God in adoration and gratitude; The Activity of God God in creation; God In Creation; Music and Song; Praise; Service Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:3 Languages: English Tune Title: TAKE UP THE SONG

Take up the song, and sing the praise of God

Author: Rae E. Whitney (b. 1927) Hymnal: Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #171 (2008) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Topics: Our Response to God in adoration and gratitude; The Activity of God God in creation; God In Creation; Music and Song; Praise; Service Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:3 Languages: English Tune Title: TAKE UP THE SONG

Take up the song, and sing the praise of God

Author: Rae E. Whitney (b. 1927) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #568 (2013) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Topics: Creation; Environmental concern; Joy; Justice and Peace; Music and Song; Praise Scripture: Genesis 1 Languages: English Tune Title: WOODLANDS

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Rae E. Whitney

1927 - 2023 Person Name: Rae E. Whitney (b. 1927) Author of "Take up the song, and sing the praise of God" in Ancient and Modern Rae E. Whitney, 96, of Scottsbluff died Thursday, November 16, 2023, at the Residency in Scottsbluff. Her memorial service will be held 10:00 A.M. Monday, November 27, 2023, at St. Francis Episcopal Church with Reverend Erin Rath officiating. Interment of her ashes will follow at West Lawn Cemetery in Gering. Memorials may be made to the Lied Scottsbluff Public Library or to the church. Rae was born at Chippenham, Wiltshire, England May 21, 1927, the only daughter of Alice Martha “Pat” Davis and Arthur James Phillips. Educated at Chippenham Grammar School and the University of Bristol, she received her B.A. (Englis Honors) degree in 1948 and Certificate of Education in 1949. She was lady President of Bristol University Branch of the Student Christian Movement 1947-48. Rae taught in secondary schools in Bicester, Oxfordshire in Wotton-under-edge, Gloucestershire and in London. During this time, she also served as a lay preacher in various village chapels. She had a life-long concern for the greater understanding between churches, and from 1958-60 she lived at St. Basil’s House in London as a resident Secretary of the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, working both with Eastern Orthodox Churches and those of the west. In June of 1960, on a coach tour of Italy, heading for the Passion Play in Oberammergau, Austria Rae met the Rev Clyde E. Whitney, Rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Scottsbluff, NE. They were married in Chippenham on December 31, 1960. Scottsbluff then became her home. The Whitneys started the local observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in 1962 and during the mid-sixties worked to establish The Retreat House of the Transfiguration at Bayard. After Father Whitney’s retirement in 1969, they served the English-speaking congregation in Guatemala City, Central America for 12 months. From 1979-85 they were volunteer local coordinators for the American Bible Society. During his 23 years of retirement, when Clyde was called to serve various churches in Nebraska and Wyoming, Rae was licensed to help her husband as a lay reader and eucharistic minister. She was on the Board of Friends of the Scottsbluff Library for a long time and served on the Editorial Board of Bosom Buddies Network, Regional West Medical Center. She led several weekly Bible classes for many years. She was elected President of Church Women United, Scotts Bluff County 1967-68 and CWU State Vice President 1981-82. She became Diocesan State President of the Episcopal Church Women 1976-77 and served on the national Episcopal Church’s Women’s Triennial Committees 1973-79. She was appointed Worship Chairman for the 1979 Triennial Denver. Soon after her arrival here, Rae became interested in local history and in the 1980’s wrote “A Portrait of Dr. Georgia Arbuckle Fix”, which has been presented over fifty times in the region. Rae was also a free-lance writer of reviews, articles, and poems, but was most widely known for her hymn writing. Of her several hundred hymn texts, some have found their way into several denominational hymnals and supplements in the United States, Canada, Scotland, England, Hong Kong, and Australia. Four collections of her hymns have been published by Selah Publishing Co. Rae was a member of St. Francis Episcopal Church (formerly St. Andrew’s), YMCA, Friends of the Library, American Association of University Women, the Cooperative Ministries Council, Church Women United, Fraternity of Prayer for Christian Unity, Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius and the Hymn Societies of the US, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland. After the Whitneys moved to Northfield Villa, Gering in 1988, Rae soon became editor of the Villa’s newsletter. Clyde died April 22, 1992, and in 1993 Rae moved to the Residency in Scottsbluff and continued to edit the monthly newsletter for both retirement communities. Rae was preceded in death by her husband; parents; her young brother Kenneth and her special friend, Edward Doemland of Milwaukee, WI. She is survived by cousins in England and many valued friends, especially Eva Carne, of Ellensburg, WA and Jane Wisniewski, of Scottsbluff, NE. --Obituary

Alfred V. Fedak

b. 1953 Person Name: Alfred Victor Fedak (b. 1953) Composer of "TAKE UP THE SONG" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Alfred Fedak (b. 1953), is a well-known organist, composer, and Minister of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, New York. He graduated from Hope College in 1975 with degrees in organ performance and music history. He obtained a Master’s degree in organ performance from Montclair State University, and has also studied at Westminster Choir College, Eastman School of Music, the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, and at the first Cambridge Choral Studies Seminar at Clare College, Cambridge. As a composer, he has over 200 choral and organ works in print, and has three published anthologies of his work (Selah Publishing). In 1995, he was named a Visiting Fellow in Church Music at Episcopal Seminary of the Soutwest in Austin, Texas. He is also a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, and was awarded the AGO’s prestigious S. Lewis Elmer Award. Fedak is a Life Member of the Hymn Society, and writes for The American Organist, The Hymn, Reformed Worship, and Music and Worship. He was a member of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song that prepared Glory to God, the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Laura de Jong

Walter Greatorex

1877 - 1949 Person Name: Walter Greatorex (1877-1949) Composer of "WOODLANDS" in Ancient and Modern Walter Greatorex (b. Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, 1877; d. Bournemouth, Hampshire, England, 1949) was director of music at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, where from 1911-1936. Before that he served as assistant music master at Uppingham School in Rutland (1900-1910). Greatorex's musical education began as a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, England, and he received his university music training at St. John's College, Cambridge. Bert Polman