Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1291816 Composed by Desmond Earley. 20th Century. 21 pages. Seolta Music Limited #882398. Published by Seolta Music Limited (A0.1291816). Commissioned by All Classical Portland radio network to mark the occasion of the total solar eclipse in 2017, Body of the Moon was first recorded by Erick Vallé (vocal solo), Nancy Ives (violoncello), and Chris Whyte (percussion) with Resonance Ensemble, directed by Katherine FitzGibbon.The piece was broadcast across the Pacific Northwest of the United States as millions experienced the totality of the solar eclipse. The phenomenon of the eclipse is represented by the lyrical cello line as the choir gives voice to the words of Galileo Galilei (1564- 1642): ‘Vedere il corpo della luna/Behold the body of the moon!’ The bass drum represents the vastness of our solar system, and a lone vocal improvisation speaks to the personal experience of this magical moment. Galileo’s other phrase, ‘we had perpetual twilight and never darkness’, is a poetic description of experiencing the eerie phenomenon of a total solar eclipse. Desmond Earley’s piece captures the sense of awe fostered by witnessing such a galactic occurrence.To explore all choral titles in College Choral Series please click here.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1291811 Composed by Traditional Irish. Arranged by Desmond Earley. A Cappella,Celtic,Irish,Traditional. 12 pages. Seolta Music Limited #882423. Published by Seolta Music Limited (A0.1291811). The Gartan Mother's Lullaby is  based on a traditional air from County Donegal with words by Joseph Campbell. It is arranged here by Desmond Earley for SSAATTBB choir and harp or piano accompaniment.To explore all choral titles in College Choral Series please click here.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1291817 Composed by Traditional Irish. Arranged by Desmond Earley. A Cappella,Celtic,Irish,Traditional. 9 pages. Seolta Music Limited #882426. Published by Seolta Music Limited (A0.1291817). The Parting Glass is one of the most familiar Celtci consg and is presented here in a beautiful  arrangement for solo tenor voice and choir by one of Ireland's foremost choral arrangers, Desmond Earley.To explore all choral titles in College Choral Series please click here.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1291793 Composed by Traditional Irish. Arranged by Desmond Earley. A Cappella,Celtic,Irish,Traditional. 7 pages. Seolta Music Limited #882405. Published by Seolta Music Limited (A0.1291793). Danny Boy is arguably one of most popular anthems of Irish America, and is often sung at funerals and in remembrance of loved ones. With lyrics penned by the English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly (1848-1929), the unforgettable melody, the ‘Derry Air’, continues to resonate around the world. Desmond Earley’s evocative arrangement expands from a solitary voice (‘Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling...’) to the vivid colour of upper voices in close harmony. Expanding to a full a cappella choir and a tenor solo, the work in its entirety reveals a hauntingly intimate expression of this much-loved text.To explore all choral titles in College Choral Series please click here.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1291814 Composed by Scottish Traditional. Arranged by Desmond Earley. A Cappella,Celtic,Irish,Traditional. 14 pages. Seolta Music Limited #882427. Published by Seolta Music Limited (A0.1291814). The Skye Boat Song given an  imaginative treatment by one of Ireland's foremost vocal arrangers, Desmond Earley for SATBB choir with tenor solo. The song was used as the theme for the TV series Outlander. Music traditional Scots (Cuachag nan Craobh) with words by Sir Harold Boulton.To explore all choral titles in College Choral Series please click here.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1291786 Composed by Traditional Irish. Arranged by Desmond Earley. A Cappella,Celtic,Irish,Traditional. 14 pages. Seolta Music Limited #882397. Published by Seolta Music Limited (A0.1291786). Black Is the Colour (of My True Love's Hair)  is a traditional folk song first known in the Appalachian Mountains region of the United States in 1915, but most probably originating from Scotland, as attributed to the reference to the Clyde in the song's lyrics. Desmond Earley has created a haunting arrangement of this beautiful melody suitable for college/university level choirs.To explore all choral titles in College Choral Series please click here.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1291792 Composed by Traditional Irish. Arranged by Desmond Earley. A Cappella,Celtic,Irish,Traditional. 28 pages. Seolta Music Limited #882404. Published by Seolta Music Limited (A0.1291792). Dúlamán is a traditional working song from the north of Ireland, made famous in the 1970s by the legendary Irish group Clannad. The word Dúlamán means seaweed and the song references two types, one for dyeing and one that is edible. These two types of seaweed also represent two different characters in the song. This arrangement by Desmond Earley features the Irish single-headed frame drum, the bodhrán, and includes a lively refrain which repeats after each verse.To explore all choral titles in College Choral Series please click here.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1396298 Composed by Brendan Graham. Arranged by arranged for solo and SATB choir by Desmond Earley. Celtic,Irish. 11 pages. Seolta Music Limited #979669. Published by Seolta Music Limited (A0.1396298). Arranged for solo female voice, SATB choir and piano, this is a song of hope, the hope of a girl to escape the workhouse during the Irish Famine years and to travel to make a new life in Australia. At the time the British Crown was encouraging girls to emigrate as a means to redress the gender balance in the colonies – there were simply too many men and not enough women. Over four thousand young women took this journey between 1848 and 1850. The composer Brendan Graham expressed his own hope that this song might have significance for the descendants of those girls, many of whom were present at the song’s first performance in 2012 at the Irish Famine Commemoration in Sydney.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1291789 Composed by Traditional Irish. Arranged by Desmond Earley. A Cappella,Celtic,Irish,Traditional. 19 pages. Seolta Music Limited #882402. Published by Seolta Music Limited (A0.1291789). Arranged for for Alto Solo, S.A.T.B. Voices, Guitar and Bodhrán, the song Courting is a Pleasure is found masquerading under a variety of names throughout the Irish tradition, such as Farewell Ballymoney and Going to Mass Last Sunday. A song of false love, betrayal, and emigration, typically sung from the male perspective about a false young woman named Molly, it is altered here to a female, singing about her dear love Johnny.In the song the girl sings a tale of an unhappy courtship after being slighted by her sweetheart Johnny and warns people to be wary of men with a roving eye! The protagonist of the song curses the man in question and leaves Ireland for America bidding farewell to her sweet Ballymoney and County Antrim.To explore all choral titles in College Choral Series please click here.