PARTITIONS GRATUITES :
- Lux Aeterna from Requiem

Soprano voice solo, baritone voice solo, optional tenor voice solo, SATB choir, and piano - Intermediate

SKU: MN.56-0058

Composed by Howard Goodall. Lent, Triduum/Three Days, Tenebrae, 21st Century, Heaven, Lament/Grief/Sorrow. Duration 8 minutes, 59 seconds. MorningStar Music Publishers #56-0058. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.56-0058).

UPC: 688670220616. Latin.

Arranged for SATB choir, two keyboards, strings, and optional harp, with soprano, tenor (optional) and baritone soloists, this fresh and unorthodox interpretation reflects on the words of the Latin Mass by juxtaposing them with poems in English. This final movement of the Requiem is set for SATB chorus and two or three soloists. Lilting triads begin the movement. The “Lux Aeterna” is set for soloists with choir accompaniment. There is a restatement of “Lead, Kindly Light” from movement 4, transformed a bit, for soloist with choir accompanying, then the choir sings this material in unison in a powerful, climactic passage. “Requiem aeternum” from the first movement is heard again here with a gently pulsing accompaniment, and the work ends quietly “Luceat eis.” Duration 8:59.

(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.

Edited by Julian Elloway. For organ solo. Level B (easy). 64 pages. Published by Oxford University Press