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O Nata Lux

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O Nata Lux | Jessica French | MusicSpoke - $2.00 x

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In O Nata Lux, I evoked the unwavering quality of the light of Christ by expressing musically the colors I associated with the text. The work’s central image is the glow of Christ’s light expressed as the sun gleaming through trees. The altos open the work singing the word “lux” on a sustained G, which to me has a soft, brownish-gold light. Other voices join with descending stepwise motives, representing light slowly flickering through the trees. At the work’s climax, on the text “Jesu redemptor saeculi” (Jesus, redeemer of the world), I expressed the bright colors of that text through the melodic line in the sopranos and tenors, which features a high G-sharp—a shimmering gold light—immediately resolving upward to an A. The melodic line settles on an E Major chord on “saeculi,” which emits a bright orange-red light. The flickering light of the opening returns in various voices, coalescing on a D Major chord on “lumine,” ending the work with a soft yellow glow.

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Jessica French

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Score Categories: Choral, Mixed
Score Tags: sacred, lent, hope, light, unaccompanied, concert

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