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"The Oxen" is a poem (sometimes known by its first line, "Christmas Eve, and Twelve of the Clock") by the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (18401928). It relates to a West Country legend: that, on the anniversary of Christ's Nativity, each Christmas Day, farm animals kneel in their stalls in homage. It was first published in December 1915, in the London newspaper ''The Times''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=recmusic.org )〕 It has been set to music several times. == Musical settings == These include (in date order, where known):〔 * 1919Graham Peel (18781937), for voice and piano * 1920Edward Joseph Dent (18761957), for voice and piano * 192122Gerald Finzi (190156), for voice and orchestra, as the third piece in his song cycle ''By Footpath and Stile'', Op. 2 * 1927Leslie Cochran, for voice and piano * 1945Robert Fleming (192176), for medium voice and piano * 1951Armstrong Gibbs (18891960), for voice and piano * 1954Ralph Vaughan Williams (18721958), for baritone and orchestra, No. 7 in his cantata ''Hodie'' * 1954Robert Williams, for unison chorus and piano * 1958Richard K. Winslow (born 1918), for SATB chorus and piano or organ * 1963William Reginald Pasfield (190994), for unison chorus and piano * 1967Alan Rawsthorne (190571), for mixed chorus ''a cappella'' * 1968Benjamin Britten (191376), for SA chorus and piano * 1991Jonathan Rathbone, ''a capella'', for the SATB popular group The Swingle Singers * 2009Derek Holman (born 1931), as "Christmas Eve", for voice and piano, No.2 in his ''The Four Seasons'' * Jonathan Elkus (born 1931), for high voice and piano 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Oxen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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