O nata lux | O nata lux de lumine

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

O nata lux de lumine

Language: Latin

Our translations: ENG

O nata lux de lumine,
Jesu redemptor saeculi,
dignare clemens supplicum
laudes preces que sumere.

Qui carne quondam contegi
dignatus es pro perditis.
Nos membra confer effici
tui beati corporis.

Prae sole vultu flammeus,
ut nix amictu candidus,
in monte dignis testibus
tu paruisti conditor.

Vates alumnis abditos
novis vetustos conferens
utrisque te divinitus
deum dedisti credere.

Te vox paterna caelitus
suum vocavit filium,
quem nos fideli pectore
regem fatemur caelitum.

Concede nobis, quaesumus,
almis micare moribus,
ut ad polorum gaudia,
bonis vehamur actibus.

Laudes tibi nos pangimus,
aeterne regum rex, deus,
qui trinus unus rector es
per cuncta regnans saecula.

Available sung texts: ← What is this?

• M. Lauridsen • T. Tallis

M. Lauridsen sets stanzas 1-2
T. Tallis sets stanzas 1-2

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Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, "O nata lux de lumine", a tenth-century hymn from Cantiones Sacrae (the original has seven verses), first published 1575 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943), "O nata lux", stanzas 1-2. [chorus] [
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by Thomas Tallis (c1505 - 1585), "O nata lux", published 1575, stanzas 1-2, from the collection Cantiones Sacrae, no. 8. [
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2005-09-02
Line count: 28
Word count: 101