Oxen of the Sun by Eoghan Desmond Sheet Music for Choir at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Title Oxen of the Sun

Artist Eoghan Desmond

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Eoghan Desmond

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 15

Arrangement Choir

Publisher Seolta Music Limited

Level 4

Product ID 1387899

Genre Irish A Cappella Celtic

Instruments Choir

Product Description

Oxen of the Sun, composed for the Choral Scholars of University College Dublin and Irish horn player Cormac Ó hAodáin in 2017, is a true celebration of the miracle of childbirth.

Quoting a fragment of text from Chapter 14 of James Joyces Ulysses, composer Eoghan Desmond portrays childbirth as a divine mystery. The greeting fanfare of a solo horn in tandem with the choir depicts a mystical incantation by doctors in Dublins Holles Street Maternity Hospital Deshil Holles Eamus/clockwise we go, in other words, while we wait for the mother to give birth, we will proceed in a clockwise manner. The birthing begins with active music on the words send us bright one, light one, Hornhorn, quickening and wombfruit.

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