[lit-ideas] Welsh Songs -- Dedicated to Judy Evans
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- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 18:02:53 -0500 (EST)
A few excerpts from this book I'm reading: Scott, "The Singing Bourgeois:
the songs of the Victorian drawing room and parlour" (Hampshire, Ashgate).
Cheers,
Speranza
Some well-known Welsh airs, like
"Ar Hyd y Nos"
"All Through the Night
and 'Gorhoffedd Gwyr Harlech' ('March of the Men of Harlech'), were first
published in Edward Jones's Relicks in the late eighteenth century.
'The March of the Men of Harlech', incidentally, was a favourite harp or
piano piece which only had words put to it in the 1860s.
Dibdin, predictably, seems to have been the first Englishman to write
'Welsh' songs, for example, 'Taffy and the Birds'.
Many other familiar names also appear in connection with Welsh songs
(Joanna Baillie, Felicia Hemans, William Smyth, Mrs Grant), some of them
involved in 'improving' enterprises such as the Beethoven.
Welsh Songs. Welsh music remained popular in the drawing room as long as
the harp was in favour.
John Parry of Denbigh (1776-1851) was a highly regarded figure.
Parry published a collection of Welsh melodies entitled "The Welsh Harper"
(volume 1, 1839; volume 2, 1848) and also adapted Welsh airs to English
tunes.
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