Lux Aeterna SATB Vocal Score 声乐总谱

在这首合唱曲中，五个相连的乐章中的每一个都提到了'光'，这些都是从各种神圣的拉丁文本中汇集而来的。我创作Lux Aeterna是为了回应我母亲最后的病痛，在将这些关于光的永恒而奇妙的文字谱写成音乐的过程中，我找到了极大的个人安慰和慰藉

作曲家: Morten Lauridsen
乐器: Choral
出版社: Peermusic
原文简介:
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