Author: John Lloyd WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Sixteen Welsh Melodies
Author: John Lloyd WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Sixteen Welsh melodies
Author: Sixteen Welsh Melodies St. David's Edition
Author: ALFRED PERCEVAL. GRAVESSixteen Welsh Melodies
Author: Arthur SomervellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs, Welsh
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Sixteen Welsh Melodies, with Traditional and Original Welsh Words ; and English Lyrics by Alfred Perceval Graves
Author: J. Lloyd WilliamsSensibility and English Song
Author: Stephen BanfieldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521379441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The history of English song from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War.
The Open Shelf
Author: Welsh Traditional Music
Author: Phyllis KinneyPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783162996
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Welsh traditional music has, until now, been the 'Cinderella' of world music studies. Over the years, few English-language writers have paid it any attention, largely because the majority of the songs of Wales are in the Welsh language. Now, at last, that gap has been filled by an American. Phyllis Kinney's book, Welsh Traditional Music, will both delight and inform anyone with an interest in the subject, be they a general reader, an academic, or a performer. It covers the traditional music of Wales from its beginnings through to the present day and contains an extensive selection of more than 200 musical examples. The book not only includes musical analysis of many of the examples, but also places the songs firmly in their social and historical context. Among the many different forms of Welsh traditional music discussed are seasonal music (including wassail songs, Christmas and May carols and Plygain carols), folk drama, ballad-singing, the relevance of the eisteddfod and the musical journals of the nineteenth century,. In addition, it includes a history of collecting from the eighteenth century to the establishment and on-going activities of the Welsh Folk-Song Society in the twentieth. Both the the instrumental and the vocal traditions are examined and there is a section dealing with the uniquely Welsh tradition of 'cerdd dant'. Overall, the value of the book lies not only in its ground-breaking nature and the quality of its scholarship, but in its discussion of Welsh traditional music in the context of the Welsh musical tradition generally. Phyllis Kinney is an American who has steeped herself in the culture, and become fluent in the language, of her adopted country. She is an acknowledged authority on the traditional music of Wales and has produced a book which will become a classic.
Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A History of Welsh Music
Author: Trevor HerbertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009041673
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
From early medieval bards to the bands of the 'Cool Cymru' era, this book looks at Welsh musical practices and traditions, the forces that have influenced and directed them, and the ways in which the idea of Wales as a 'musical nation' has been formed and embedded in popular consciousness in Wales and beyond. Beginning with early medieval descriptions of musical life in Wales, the book provides both an overarching study of Welsh music history and detailed consideration of the ideas, beliefs, practices and institutions that shaped it. Topics include the eisteddfod, the church and the chapel, the influence of the Welsh language and Welsh cultural traditions, the scholarship of the Celtic Revival and the folk song movement, the impacts of industrialization and digitization, and exposure to broader trends in popular culture, including commercial popular music and sport.