Composer:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (ISBN 978-0-19-338834-5)
Year Written:
2012
Year Published:
2014
Commissioned/Written for
From score: "Commissioned by the Revd Dr Simon Jones for the Choir of Merton College, Oxford"
Text:
Length:
00:03:00
Scoring: Voices:
S(div.)A(div.)T(div.)B(div.)
Difficulty:
3
Related Media:
From score: "First performed by the Choir of Merton College, Oxford, directed by Benjamin Nicholas, on 4 May 2012"
This composition is a setting of one of the seven "O Antiphons" sung at the end of Advent in the Christian liturgical year. "O Clavis David" is a Magnificat Antiphon at Vespers, 20 December. The translation from the score is as follows: "O Key of David, and sceptre of the house of Israel; who opens, and no-one shuts: who shuts and no-one opens: come, and lead the prisoner from the prison house, who dwells in darkness and the shadow of death."