Lucis Creator optime (English text) (Simon Biazeck)

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• (Posted 2016-05-04)  CPDL #39544: 

Editor: Simon Biazeck (submitted 2016-05-04).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 125 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The present edition uses John Mason Neale's English singing translation.

General Information

Title: O blest Creator of the light (Lucis Creator optime) Lyricist: John Mason Neale

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Sacred, Office hymn

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 2016

Description: An alternatim setting of verses 2 & 4. The original Latin text of this hymn is attributed to Pope St. Gregory the Great (540-604). It is used in the Roman Breviary at Vespers for Sundays after Epiphany and Sundays after Pentecost. In the Liturgia Horarum it is used for Sunday evening Vespers for Ordinary Time for the first and third weeks of the Psalter.

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