PARTITIONS GRATUITES :
- LUX AETERNA

(SATB Vocal Score). By Morten Lauridsen (1943-). SATB Score. Peermusic Classical. Softcover. 56 pages. Peermusic #61911-122. Published by Peermusic

(SATB with Organ, Score). By Morten Lauridsen (1943-). SATB Score. Peermusic Classical. 56 pages. Peermusic #61914-122. Published by Peermusic

(SATB and orchestra score). By Morten Lauridsen (1943-). Score. Peermusic Classical. 60 pages. Peermusic #61925-186. Published by Peermusic

Choir and Chamber Orchestra

SKU: BT.PMC3599

Composed by Morten Lauridsen. Score Only. 60 pages. Peermusic Classical #PMC3599. Published by Peermusic Classical (BT.PMC3599).

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 comfortand 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 theRequiem 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 canonon 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 openingsection of the Introitus and concludes with a joyful celebratory Alleluia. --Morten Lauridsen.

SSAA choir, Organ

SKU: CA.751700

Composed by Johannes Matthias Michel. Contemporary Choir Music. Sacred vocal music, Peace and justice. Full score. Composed 2015. 8 pages. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 07.517/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.751700).

ISBN 9790007166885. Text language: Latin.

Dona nobis pacem and Lux aeterna were both written for concert programs devoted to specific themes. They share the use of the techniques of minimalism in their organ parts, enabling the broad vocal lines in the choral voices to stretch out above this instrument, thus imparting a special aspect to the concerns addressed by the texts: the longing for freedom in the here and now, as expressed in the Dona nobis pacem, as well as the desire for peace and tranquillity in the Lux aeterna.

Composed by Markus Zahnhausen. For treble recorder. 6 pages. Published by Moseler Verlag