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Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2012-05-04). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 25 kB Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transposed up a whole step (SAATB); note values halved

Title: O lux beata Trinitas
Composer: Michael Praetorius
Lyricist: Ambrose of Milan

Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SAATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet, Office hymn for Feast of the Trinity

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Hymnodia Sionia, 1611

Description: This setting of the hymn for the Feast of the Trinity is No. 137 in the composer's collection Hymnodia Sionia.

Latin text

O lux beata Trinitas
et principalis Unitas,
jam sol recedit igueus,
infunde lumen cordibus.

English translation

O Trinity of blessed light,
O Unity of princely might,
The fiery sun now goes his way;
Shed Thou within our hearts Thy ray.
—tr. John Mason Neale

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