O lux beata Trinitas (Michael Praetorius)

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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

General Information

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

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SAATB

Genre: SacredMotetOffice 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.

Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

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

English.png 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