O nata lux | UK Choral Composers

Date:

Tenth Century

Sources:

Translation (ChoralWiki), Text and Source Discussion (Musica Sacra Forum--Church Music Assoc. of America)

Category:

Liturgical: Canticle (including hymns)

Language:

Latin

About

The author of the O nata lux de lumine text is unknown. It is an office hymn to be sung at Lauds of the Feast of Transfiguration which falls on 6 August. The story of the Transfiguration of Christ can be found in the Gospel of Matthew in the Christian New Testament (Matthew 17:1-9). Lauds of the Feast of Transfiguration is the Office of Aurora/Dawn. Poetic translations can be found at ChoralWiki web page. A word-for-word and literal translation can be found in Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire/Volume I: Sacred Latin Texts compiled and annotated by Ron Jeffers (Corvallis, Oregon: earthsongs, 1988), pp. 177-178.

Works using this text

Title	Composer	Published	Scoring: Voices	Scoring: Instruments	Length	Difficulty
O nata lux	Gabriel Jackson	1990	ATTBB ATTBB Voicing listed indicates the following: If a voice is listed alone [S], this indicates that there is no divisi throughout. If a (div.) is indicated after a voice part [S(div.)], this indicates that there are occasional divisions in the voice part. If a voice is listed in parentheses [S(S)], this indicates that there are frequent divisions in the voice part. If a voice is listed more than once (SS or SSS), there are separate voice parts throughout the composition. All soloists are listed in the comment section.		00:08:00	3