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Raise the Song
Author: Edith J. Sanford Tillotson Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Raise the song, raise the song, sound it far and near Refrain First Line: Bring, merrily bring, voices and hearts to join the song Text Sources: The Bible School Hymnal, by Isaac H. Meredith & Grant Tullar (New York: Tullar-Meredith Company, 1907), number 2
Raise the Song
Psalm 81: Sing with Joy to God
Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Raise a song and sound the timbrel Refrain First Line: Sing with joy to God
Psalm 81: Sing with Joy to God
[Raise the song, raise the song, sound it far and near]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Grant Colfax Tullar Incipit: 33333 34343 42345 Used With Text: Raise the Song
[Raise the song, raise the song, sound it far and near]
[Sing with joy to God]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Michel Guimont Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 25632 Used With Text: Psalm 81: Sing with Joy to God
[Sing with joy to God]
[Raise a song and sound the timbrel]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Marty Haugen Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 34576 54512 3513 Used With Text: Sing with Joy to God Our Help
[Raise a song and sound the timbrel]
Raise the Song
Author: Edith S. Tillotson Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #5729 First Line: Raise the song, raise the song, sound it far and near Refrain First Line: Bring, merrily bring, voices and hearts to join the song Lyrics: 1. Raise the song, raise the song, sound it far and near,
Let the notes of rapture swell
With the joyful words they tell;
Raise the song, raise the song, happy anthems bring,
Telling all who hear the call, the Lord is King.
Refrain
Bring, merrily bring, voices and hearts to join the song,
Sing, merrily sing, raising a chorus full and strong;
Ring, merrily ring, echoing bells from Heaven ring!
Joy we raise in a song of praise to Christ our King.
2. Raise the song, raise the song, over land and sea,
So our music may impart
Joy renewed in every heart;
Raise the song, raise the song, set the echoes free,
Words of praise, thro’ all our days, our song shall be. [Refrain]
3. Raise the song, raise the song, see the banners sway!
May they ever brightly shine
Glowing with a light divine;
Raise the song, raise the song, joyful anthems bring,
Music sweet must ever greet the Lord, our King. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Raise the song, raise the song, sound it far and near]
Raise the Song
Raise the Song
Author: Edith S. Tillotson Hymnal: The Bible School Hymnal #2 (1907) First Line: Raise the song, raise the song, sound it far and near Refrain First Line: Bring, merrily bring, voices and hearts to join the song Languages: English Tune Title: [Raise the song, raise the song, sound it far and near]
Raise the Song
Sing with Joy to God Our Help
Hymnal: Christian Worship #81A (2021) First Line: Raise a song and sound the timbrel Topics: Failure; Fear; Friends; God as Help; God as Strength; Joy; Prayer; Repentance Scripture: Psalm 81 Languages: English Tune Title: [Raise a song and sound the timbrel]
Sing with Joy to God Our Help
Grant Colfax Tullar
1869 - 1950 Composer of "[Raise the song, raise the song, sound it far and near]" in The Cyber Hymnal Grant Colfax Tullar was born August 5, 1869, in Bolton, Connecticut. He was named after the American President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax. After the American Civil War, his father was disabled and unable to work, having been wounded in the Battle of Antietam. Tullar's mother died when he was just two years old so Grant had no settled home life until he became an adult. Yet from a life of sorrow and hardship he went on to bring joy to millions of Americans with his songs and poetry.
As a child, he received virtually no education or religious training. He worked in a woolen mill and as a shoe clerk. The last Methodist camp meeting in Bolton was in 1847. Tullar became a Methodist at age 19 at a camp meeting near Waterbury in 1888.
He then attended the Hackettstown Academy in New Jersey. He became an ordained Methodist minister and pastored for a short time in Dover, Delaware. For 10 years he was the song leader for evangelist Major George A. Hilton. Even so, in 1893 he also helped found the well-known Tullar-Meredith Publishing Company in New York, which produced church and Sunday school music. Tullar composed many popular hymns and hymnals.
His works include: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Tullar Meredith Co., 1903) and The Bible School Hymnal (New York: Tullar Meredith Co., 1907). One of Grant Tullar's most quoted poems is "The Weaver":
My Life is but a weaving
Between my Lord and me;
I cannot choose the colors
He worketh steadily.
Oft times He weaveth sorrow
And I, in foolish pride,
Forget He sees the upper,
And I the under side.
Not til the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly,
Shall God unroll the canvas
And explain the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful
In the Weaver's skillful hand,
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned.
He knows, He loves, He cares,
Nothing this truth can dim.
He gives His very best to those
Who chose to walk with Him.
Grant Tullar
--http://www.boltoncthistory.org/granttullar.html, from Bolton Community News, August 2006.
Grant Colfax Tullar
Edith Sanford Tillotson
1876 - 1968 Person Name: Edith S. Tillotson Author of "Raise the Song" in The Cyber Hymnal Edith Sanford Tillotson was born and lived her entire life in Corona, New York. She wrote hymns for children as well as poems and librettos.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
Edith Sanford Tillotson
Marty Haugen
b. 1950 Composer of "[Raise a song and sound the timbrel]" in Christian Worship Marty Haugen (b. 1950), is a prolific liturgical composer with many songs included in hymnals across the liturgical spectrum of North American hymnals and beyond, with many songs translated into different languages. He was raised in the American Lutheran Church, received a BA in psychology from Luther College, yet found his first position as a church musician in a Roman Catholic parish at a time when the Roman Catholic Church was undergoing profound liturgical and musical changes after Vatican II. Finding a vocation in that parish to provide accessible songs for worship, he continued to compose and to study, receiving an MA in pastoral studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota. A number of liturgical settings were prepared for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and more than 400 of his compositions are available from several publishers, especially GIA Publications, who also produced some 30 recordings of his songs. He is composer-in-residence at Mayflower Community Congregational Church in Minneapolis and continues to compose and travel to speak and teach at worship events around the world.
Emily Brink
Marty Haugen
