Hymn tune

LEA

LEA is a hymn tune in Common Meter (8.6.8.6), composed by James Lea Summers (1837). In a hymnal the tune has a name of its own, printed in capitals, because the same music carries many texts: any hymn written in its meter can be sung to it.

In this library it is the tune for 1 hymn, listed below, and 325 more texts in the same meter can be sung to it.

The four-part harmony played here comes from the Open Hymnal Project's public-domain edition (copied from 'The Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal' (Ohio Synod), 1908 Hymn 202.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to LEA, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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Hymns sung to LEA

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