O nata lux (Thomas Tallis)
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- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2024-04-19). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 49 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: A bar-less edition of the score.
- Editor: Maia McCormick (submitted 2024-01-07). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 82 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: SATBarB (two flats). Duple vs. triple meter marked (via bracket) for optimal text stresses. Text contains emphasis markings, includes full text and translation.
- Editor: Adrian Wall (submitted 2023-09-10). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 254 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Transposed up a tone for SMATB. Note values halved.
- Editor: Simon Biazeck (submitted 2023-08-05). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 200 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Original pitch, note-values, key signatures, and mensuration sign retained. Barlines, cue-size accidentals within the staves and accidentals in square brackets above the staves are editorial; the latter serving, in part, to reinforce the editor’s approach to musica ficta—the modern conception of performers’ accidentals. Cue-size notes are editorial. Coloration is indicated by thick corner brackets. Dashed syllabic slurs are editorial.
- Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2022-07-08). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 115 kB Copyright: CC BY NC ND
- Edition notes: Edited from the Byrd/Tallis 1575 Cantiones Sacrae. Original pitch and note values retained.
- Editor: Peter Hilton (submitted 2022-06-15). Score information: A4, 1 page, 83 kB Copyright: CC BY NC SA
- Edition notes: Set on one page without bar lines, note lengths halved.
- Editor: Maia McCormick (submitted 2021-01-03). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 45 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed up a whole step (to Am) for SAATB. Duple vs. triple meter marked (via bracket) for optimal text stresses.
- Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2020-05-21). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 57 kB Copyright: CC BY NC
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- Editor: Phoebe Wing (submitted 2017-03-14). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 52 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed up a minor third for SSATB. Text underlay as in part book "Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur."
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2016-06-12). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 46 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Tony Compton (submitted 2013-11-28). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 33 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: English words provided also, as an alternative to Latin in performance
- Editor: Gerd Eichler (submitted 2013-01-31). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 61 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Mensural notation, original note values and key signature, clefs modernized, musica ficta clearly marked.
- Last revised: 2013-02-23
- Editor: Sjouke Bruining (submitted 2009-10-10). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 256 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2008-04-15). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 92 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Wilbert Berendsen (submitted 2007-12-21). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 68 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: LilyPond source included in PDF. SATTB voicing.
- Editor: Ted Dean (submitted 2004-05-20). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 78 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Transposed up a major second. Voicing described as SATTB on external site but SAATB is perhaps more appropriate.
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2000-04-18). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 39 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: SATTB voicing.
General Information
Title: O nata lux
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Source of text: 10th century hymn
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATBarB, SATTB, SAATB, or ATTBarB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1575 in Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur, no. 8
2nd published: 1980 in The Chester Book of Motets, Book 9, no. 6
Description:
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- Free choir training aids for this work are available at Choralia.
Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at O nata lux.
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