The aged Simeon takes the new-born Jesus in his arms, recognises his significance and celebrates this moment in a paean of praise as the fulfilment of his life. In Matsushita’s motet this song of praise, the “nunc dimittis”, stands at the centre of the composition. Here, the triad of C F sharp G, used for the word “hodie today” at the beginning, symbolically combines with a Gregorian-like motif, revolving around the central note of B flat in whole-tone movement, and which is used to represent the Virgin Mary. The work ends with a mystical wash of sound, a whole-tone cluster which emerges from the aleatorically repeated basic motifs of the work, and fades away tonothing.
| Instrument | SSAA |
| Genre (Fx Pop, Rock, Barn m.m.) | Post-1900 |
| Year of publishing | 2014 |
| Sidor | 8 |
| Bidragsgivare | Matsushita, Ko(Composer) |
| Språk | Latin |
| ISMN | 9790007143497 |