Lux Aeterna SATB Vocal Score 聲樂總譜
在這首合唱曲中，五個相連的樂章中的每一個都提到了'光'，這些都是從各種神聖的拉丁文本中彙集而來的。我創作Lux Aeterna是為了回應我母親最後的病痛，在將這些關於光的永恆而奇妙的文字譜寫成音樂的過程中，我找到了極大的個人安慰和慰藉
作曲家: Morten Lauridsen
樂器: Choral
出版社: Peermusic
原文簡介:
Each of the five connected movements in this choral cycle contains references to 'Light,' assembled from various sacred Latin texts. I composed Lux Aeterna in response to my mother's final illness and found great personal comfort and solace in setting to music these timeless and wondrous words about Light, a universal symbol of illumination at all levels - spiritual, artistic and intellectual.
The work opens and closes with the beginning and ending of the Requiem Mass, with the central three movements drawn respectively from the Te Deum, O Nata Lux and Veni, Sancte Spiritus. The opening Introitus introduces several themes that recur later in the work and includes an extended canon on “et lux perpetua.” In Te, Domine, Speravi contains, among other musical elements, the cantus firmus “Herzliebster Jesu” (from the Nuremburg Songbook, 1677) and a lengthy inverted canon on “fiat misericordia.” O Nata Lux and Veni, Sancte Spiritus are paired songs, the former an a cappella motet at the center of the work and the latter a spirited, jubilant canticle. A quiet setting of the Agnus Dei precedes the final Lux Aeterna, which reprises the opening section of the Introitus and concludes with a joyful celebratory Alleluia.
--Morten Lauridsen