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3 unusual facts about Te lucis ante terminum


H. Balfour Gardiner

His best-known work Evening Hymn (1908), a setting of the Compline hymn Te lucis ante terminum, is a lush, romantic work for eight-part choir and organ, of dense harmonies.

Te lucis ante terminum

Merati, in his notes on Galvanus's Thesaurus, says that it has always held without variation, this place in the Roman Church.

The hymn is found in a hymnary in Irish script (described by Clemens Blume in his Cursus, etc.) of the eighth or early ninth century; but the classical prosody of its two stanzas (solita in the third line of the original text is the only exception) suggests a much earlier origin.



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