Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1511121 Composed by Henry Montagu Butler, Walter Greatorex. Arranged by M Colley. Chamber,Christian,Classical,Religious. Score. 2 pages. M Colley #1086336. Published by M Colley (A0.1511121). An arrangement of Lift up your hearts (tune Woodlands). An 8 bar introduction has also been added. The words have been altered so that they make it easier for the singers to accommodate these. Some of the bass (Left Hand) notes have also been altered to reduce stretches. This version includes 3 verses only, however the music can be repeated if necessary for the full 5 verse version.WordsLift up your hearts! is an English hymn written in 1881 by the Anglican academic and clergyman H. Montagu Butler. The words echo the English translation of the Sursum corda, a part of the communion liturgy in Christian churches.MusicIn the Church of England, Lift up your hearts! is usually sung to Woodlands, a musical setting composed by Walter Greatorex for Gresham's School (where he was Director of Music) in 1916. Woodlands is the name of a house at the school.School songThe hymn became the school song of Walter Greatorex's old school, Derby (a tradition continued by Derby Grammar School), Haileybury and Imperial Service College, Hertford, and also of Poundswick Grammar School, Wythenshawe, Manchester. It is also the school hymn of Melbourne's Haileybury College, Benenden School, Hilton College, Cranbrook, County Grammar School for Boys, Woking, Surrey and Queen Mary's High School for Girls, Walsall and Mayfield Preparatory School, also part of the Queen Mary's foundation.
