Rise, Crowned with Light, Imperial Salem, Rise in Tonic Solfa
Rise, Crowned with Light, Imperial Salem, Rise in Tonic Solfa to LANGRAN, doh is F: the solfa with the words, staff notation, 4 verses and a piano.
The solfa with the words
| mRise,---dcrowned-rwith- | mlight,---sim---- |
| fper--mial-mSa--rlem,- | drise!------- |
| mEx----malt-rthy- | stow----rering--- |
| mhead,-rand-rlift-dthine- | t,eyes!------- |
| dSee---dheaven-dits- | fspark----mling--- |
| spor---mtalsrwide-ddis-- | t,play,------- |
| dAnd---rbreak-dup-- | don-rthee-min-fa- |
| mflood---rof--- | dday!------- |
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- Key
- F major
- Doh
- F
- Time
- 4/4
- Starts on
- m (A)
- Range
- t, to s (E to C, a sixth)
- Tune
- LANGRAN
- Words
- Alexander Pope
- Music
- James Langran
Tune LANGRAN by James Langran (1835–1909); words by Alexander Pope (1688–1744). Sources and licences.
The solfa line by line
The same solfa as plain text, a line of the hymn at a time, with the words of the first verse under it — easy to copy into your own notes or a message to the choir. To print it, download the solfa as a PDF.
Doh is F · 4/4
Staff notation
The melody on the treble staff in F major, with the first verse under the notes.
The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.
The words
Rise, crowned with light, imperial Salem, rise!
Exalt thy towering head, and lift thine eyes!
See heaven its sparkling portals wide display,
And break upon thee in a flood of day!
See a long race thy spacious courts adorn,
See future sons and daughters yet unborn,
In crowding ranks on every side arise,
Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
See barbarous nations at thy gates attend,
Walk in thy light, and in thy temples bend!
See thy bright altars thronged with prostrate kings,
While every land its joyous tribute brings.
The seas shall waste, the skies to smoke decay,
Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away
But fixed his word, his saving power remains,
Thy realm shall last, thy own Messiah reigns.
How to sing it from the solfa
- Find doh first. Play or hum F and sing d r m f s up from it, so the whole choir has the key in their ears before you start.
- Pitch the first note. The tune starts on m (A).
- Count the time. 4/4 means four crotchet beats in each bar. In the grid every cell is half a crotchet: a dash (–) holds the note before it, and _ is a rest.
- Know the notes. The tune uses d r m f s t. A comma after a note (s,) is the octave below; an apostrophe (d') is the octave above.
New to solfa? Read how to read Tonic Solfa and how to find the doh of a song.
About the hymn
Alexander Pope wrote these words. They were printed in Hymns for Christian Devotion, compiled by John G. Adams and Edwin H. Chapin (Boston, 1846), as hymn 298 of its twenty-second edition (1853), “Predicted Glory of the Messiah's Kingdom”.
The book printed the words without tunes, marked Tens (10.10.10.10), to be sung to any tune of that metre. This page sets them to LANGRAN; any other Tens tune fits them as well.
- Words: Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
- Music (1861): James Langran (1835–1909)
Tune LANGRAN by James Langran (1835–1909); words by Alexander Pope (1688–1744).
Sung to the same tune: O, Send Me Not Away! for I Would Drink, Quiet from God! How Beautiful to Keep.
Questions about Rise, Crowned with Light, Imperial Salem, Rise
What is the doh of Rise, Crowned with Light, Imperial Salem, Rise?
In this version, in F major, doh is F. If your choir sings it in another key, doh moves to the new key note and every solfa syllable stays the same — that is what movable doh means.
What note does Rise, Crowned with Light, Imperial Salem, Rise start on?
It starts on m (A in F major). Find doh first, then sing up or down to m.
Is Rise, Crowned with Light, Imperial Salem, Rise in the public domain?
Yes. Alexander Pope died in 1744, James Langran died in 1909; the words were in print by 1853 and the music in 1861. Everyone named died before 1955 and both were published before 1929, so the hymn is out of copyright in the UK, the EU, the United States and Nigeria. Modern arrangements and translations can still be under copyright.