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'''''Lucis Creator optime''''' is the {{CiteCat|Office hymns|Office hymn}} traditionally sung at Sunday [[Vespers]] between {{CiteCat|Epiphany}} and {{CiteCat|Lent}} and following {{CiteCat|Pentecost}}. The latest revision of the [[Liturgy of the Hours]] (''Liturgia Horarum'', 1985) assigns it to the 1st and 3rd weeks of the psalter during [[Ordinary Time]].

The meter is {{CC|88. 88 (L.M.)}}. [[Liber usualis|LU]] gives 2 mode viii tunes (the 1st assigned by the 1934 ''[[Antiphonale]]'' to summertime) and a 3rd in mode i, while the ''Antiphonale'' gives a 'winter' tune in mode iv.
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*[[Lucis creator 2 (Anonymous)|Anonymous]] 2, harmonized by Bernard Hellebusch SATB
*[[Lucis creator 3 (Anonymous)|Anonymous]] 3, INNSBRUCK, harmonized by Bernard Hellebusch SATB
*[[Lucis Creator optime (Giovanni Matteo Asola)|Giovanni Matteo Asola]] ATTB or SATB (even verses, with plainsong odd verses)
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*[[Lucis creator optime, Op. 2/1 (Franz Bühler)|Franz Bühler, Op. 2 No. 1]] SATB & orchestra
*[[Lucis Creator optime (Estêvão de Brito)|Estêvão de Brito (dubious)]] SATB (vv. 1 & 5)
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*[[Lucis creator optime (Michael J. Drake, Jr.)|Michael J. Drake, Jr.]] SATB-->
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*[[Lucis creator optime (Thomas Eisenhut)|Thomas Eisenhut]] SATB, 2 violini & bc
*[[Lucis Creator optime (Carlotta Ferrari)|Carlotta Ferrari]] SA or TB (v. 1)
*[[Lucis Creator optime (Andrea Gabrieli)|Andrea Gabrieli]] (2 & 4) SATB & SATTB
*[[Oliver Hayes]]
**[[Lucis Creator (no. 1) (Oliver Hayes)|First setting]] SATB (odd verses)
**[[Lucis Creator (no. 2) (Oliver Hayes)|Second setting]] SATB (even verses)
*[[Lucis creator optime (Orlando di Lasso)|Orlando di Lasso]] a 4 (even)
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*[[Hymni vespertini (Josef Ohnewald)|Josef Ohnewald]] SATB (XXXa - vv. 1-2,4-5)
*[[Lucis creator optime (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)|Palestrina]] a 4, 3 & 5 (odd)
*[[Lucis creator (Michael Praetorius)|Michael Praetorius]] SATB (1st verse)
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*[[Lucis creator optime (Jacobus Vaet)|Jacobus Vaet]] SAT(T)B (even) 'summer' tune
*[[Lucis Creator optime (Tomás Luis de Victoria)|Tomás Luis de Victoria]] ATBB or SATB (even verses)
*[[Lucis Creator optime (Samuel Webbe Jr.)|Samuel Webbe Jr.]] SATB (single strophe for vv. 2 & 4)
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==Text and translations==
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{{Text|Latin|
1. Lucis creator optime,
lucem die rum proferens,
primordiis lucis novae,
mundi parans originem.

2. Qui mane junctum vesperi,
diem vocari praecipis,
illabitur tetrum chaos,
audi preces cum fletibus.

3. Ne mens gravata crimine,
vitae sit exsul munere,
dum nil perenne cogitat,
seseque culpis illigat.

4.Caeleste pulset ostium,
vitale tollat praemium,
vitemus omne noxium,
purgemus omne pessimum.

5. Praesta Pater piissime,
Patrique compar unice,
cum Spiritu paraclito,
regnans per omne saeculum.}}

{{Translation|Italian|
1. Magnifico creatore della Luce
datore della luce dei giorni
che prepara l'avvento della nuova
luce nell'origine del nuovo mondo.

2. Tu che rimani giunto al tramonto,
pregusti il giorno prima della chiamata:
sostituisci l'oscuro disastro,
ascolta i pianti e le preghiere.

3. Affinchè la mente oppressa dalla colpa
non sia peante eredità nella vita
mentre nulla pensa in eterno,
e lega se stesso alle colpe.

4. Risuoni l'interno dei cieli
prenda la vita come premio
fuggiamo ogni colpa
rifiutiamo ogni peccato.

5. Regna, Padre piissimo,
e unico compagno del Padre,
con lo Spirito Paraclito
potente in ogni secolo.}}
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{{Translation|English|
1. O Blest Creator of the light,
Who mak'st the day with radiance bright,
and o'er the forming world didst call
the light from chaos first of all;

2. Whose wisdom joined in meet array
the morn and eve, and named them Day:
night comes with all its darkling fears;
regard Thy people's prayers and tears.

3. Lest, sunk in sin, and whelmed with strife,
they lose the gift of endless life;
while thinking but the thoughts of time,
they weave new chains of woe and crime.

4. But grant them grace that they may strain
the heavenly gate and prize to gain:
each harmful lure aside to cast,
and purge away each error past.

5. O Father, that we ask be done,
through Jesus Christ, Thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee,
doth live and reign eternally. Amen.
{{Translator|John Mason Neale}}}}
{{Translation|Dutch|
1. Algoede Schepper van het licht,
Die ’t licht der dagen op deedt gaan,
En ’t licht verwekkend in ’t begin,
Vangt heel de wereldordning aan.

2. Die de ochtend met den avond saam
Voortaan liet zijn een volle dag,
Weer valt de zwarte chaos in,
Hoor ons gebed en rouwbeklag.

3. Dat onze ziel, met schuld bezwaard,
Van ’t leven niet verbannen word’
terwijl ze aan de eeuwigheid niet denkt
En zich in ’t net der zonde stort.

4. Zij kome voor de hemelpoort
En krijge ’t eeuwig levensgoed,
Vermijden we al wat schaden kan,
Het kwaad zij zuiver uitgeboet.

5. Verleen dit, Vader, liefderijk,
Gij zoon, den Vader gans gelijk,
En Geest die onze trooster zijt,
En leeft en heerst ten allen tijd. Amen.
{{Translator|Benedictijnen van Affligem}}}}
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==External links==
*[http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Hymni/LucisCreator.html Preces latinae]

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