The novel Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty is about a woman composer and the interplay between her life and her art. One of the subjects she thinks about is that there is no form of music to celebrate childbirth. There are requiems for deaths, there is music for marriage, but there isn't music to mark birth. Composers are usually men, and they were usually barred from the birthing room. It was something that happened off-stage. Sure, there's Christmas stuff, but that's a celebration for the God-part of Jesus, rather that the man-part arriving on earth. Does anyone know of music for the birth of an "ordinary" child? Susan