A gorgeous new take on a well-known traditional Irish Folk Song. A cappella, with full eight-part divisi throughout. Lush harmonies and a flowing, memorable melody make this a stunning and unique setting. "Sing in" the spring season with this new elegant arrangement for advanced mixed ensembles. — Santa Barbara Music Publishing
The traditional Irish folk song is wrapped in a gorgeous eight-part a cappella setting with expanded harmonies. The flowing, memorable melody is surrounded with lilting motives and an elegant harmonization that makes this a stunning spring choice for more advanced choirs. — JW Pepper
Hot off the presses is our brand new recording of Tim Harbold's gloriously inventive arrangement of folksong favorite, Down by the Salley Gardens. Tim's ingenious evocation of uilleann pipes, the national bagpipes of Ireland, immediately transport us to the banks of the Ballysadare River in County Sligo. — Ensemble Altera
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NOTES
My first version of this piece focused straightforwardly on using lush harmonies to capture the wistfulness of lost love. The harmonies were gorgeous, but the arrangement was missing something. By chance, I included the arrangement on a concert celebrating folksongs of the British Isles, for which I was collaborating with an uilleann piper and a fiddler. On a lark, we decided to add some uilleann pipe drones to the performance, and I loved the effect so much that I incorporated the piper's drone into the choral arrangement. A simple idea that transformed the piece! |
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