Video Information

• Choir: dwsChorale
• Piece: Robin Adair
• Composer:  David Warin Solomons
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Folk/Ethnic
• Robin Adair
  arranged for SATB choir
  (sung, transposed down in this video, by the one-man multitrack choir dwsChorale)
  
  [Note: a few textual errors have crept into the performance - but the score has the correct words]
  moreRobin Adair
  arranged for SATB choir
  (sung, transposed down in this video, by the one-man multitrack choir dwsChorale)
  
  [Note: a few textual errors have crept into the performance - but the score has the correct words]
  
  The original tune was composed with the words Eibhlin a Ruin (Ellen Aroon or Eileen Aroon) by the Irish bard Carroll O'Daly (14th Century),
  although it was later attributed to the 18th century Irish composer Charles Coffey (this was presumably an arrangement of the original).
  The words of "Robin Adair" itself are understood to be by Lady Caroline Keppel, who was in love with a surgeon by that name.
  (This seems more likely than the theory that Robert Burns wrote it, although Burns certainly knew Keppel's lyrics and made his
  own parodies upon the words).
  Some later versions of the melody contain "Scotch snaps" but this version follows the simplest melodic line, without the Scotch snaps - possibly O'Daly's original tune? - and with quite romantic choral harmonies.
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