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THEODORA (Legge)

Composer: Alfred Legge
Published in 26 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF
Audio files: Recording

Composer: Alfred Legge

Rv Alfred A K Legge United Kingdom 1843-1919. It is presumed that he was born in Cambridge, England, the son of printer/compositor, William Legge (mother was Mary Legge). Alfred, at age nine, was a chorister in church. He presumably became a minister in Germans, Norfolk. His wife was Theodora Susan Palmer (1848-1908), and it is presumed he named his tune after her. They had a daughter, Theodora Constance Mary, born in 1875, and a son, Alfred Reginald, born in 1878. Alfred A K died at Ashford, Kent, England. John Perry Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title:	THEODORA (Legge)
Composer:	Alfred Legge
Meter:	5.4.5.4 D
Incipit:	12343 23435 5165
Key:	E Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

Texts

Rest of the Weary

Light After Darkness

Light after darkness, gain after loss,
Strength after weakness, crown after cross;
Sweet after bitter, hope after fears,
Home after wandering, praise after tears.

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All texts published with THEODORA (Legge)^ top

Alternative Tunes

More tunes with meter 5.4.5.4 D ^ top

Timeline

Media

Scores
Audio

Small Church Music #1487

PDF Score (PDF)

Audio recording from Small Church Music #1487

Page Scans

Redemption Songs: a choice collection of 1000 hymns and choruses for evangelistic meetings, solo singers, choirs and the home (1937), p.57

Instances

Instances (1 - 26 of 26)

Celestial Songs #182

College Hymnal #364

El Himnario para el uso de las Iglesias Evangelicas de Habla Espanola en Todo el Mundo #458

Gloria #221

Hinário para o Culto Cristão #472

Hymns of the Centuries #221

Pilgrim Songs (Number Two) #144

Plymouth Sunday-School Hymnal #103

Redemption Songs #45

Small Church Music #1487

Sunday-School Book #230b

The Book of Common Praise #504a

The Book of Praise #233b

The Church Hymnary #129

The Congregational Mission Hymnal #48

The Congregational Mission Hymnal #283a

The Fellowship Hymn Book #199

The Hymnary for use in Baptist churches #130b

The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada #130b

The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes #101

The Sanctuary Hymnal, published by Order of the General Conference of the United Brethren in Christ #357

The Song Companion to the Scriptures #260a

The Sunday School Hymnary #254

The Sunday School Hymnary #395

The Y.M.C.A. Hymnal #105

Worship Song #259

Exclude 24 pre-1979 instances

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