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TEMPLE BRYAN

Composer: Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister

Born: July 8, 1870, Dublin, Ireland. Died: April 26, 1950, Cambridge, England. Buried: Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground (formerly St. Giles’ Burial Ground), Cambridge, England. A Cambridge University graduate, Macalister’s passion was archaeology. He was a contributor to the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, and directed digs for the Palestine Excavation Fund (1900-09, 1923-24). He also played the organ and directed the choir at the Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church in Dublin, and served on the committee that revised Scotland’s The Church Hymnody. Sources: Erickson, p. 341 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/c/macalister_ras.htm… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: TEMPLE BRYAN
Composer: Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
Meter: 10.10.10.6
Incipit: 35671 13323 56713
Key: C Major
Copyright: Tune copyright, 1927, by the Oxford University Press. Used by permission.
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