Sheet Music: ScoreLux Aeterna / Ross Edwards.Also known as: Eternal Light by Ross Edwards (2017)
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Ross Edwards, whose Lux Aeterna is the climax of The
Diggers' Requiem, a composite work by Australian composers
premiered in Llewellyn Hall on October 2017, has always wanted
his music to act as an agent of healing and ritual - an important
part of its age-old universal function.
"I see my Lux Aeterna as a prayer for peace," he says.
"I was drawn to John Grant's Lament for the Pipers Lost in the
Great War because it seemed to me to be an archetypal lamentation
which resonated with my Scottish ancestry.
The combination of using it as a cantus firmus for the setting of
the Lux Aeterna Latin text (in English - Eternal Light) and the
sounding of the 62,000 bells for the 62,000 Australian WW1 dead,
which form a halo around the piece, has given the work a mythic
power".
Christopher Latham
Published by: Australian Music Centre (under licence from G.Schirmer Australia) — 1 score (17p. -- A3 (portrait))
Duration: 10 mins, 10 sec.
Includes program note.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979-0-67311-303-9
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