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Pages in category "Welsh folk songs" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ar Hyd y Nos;
A well known Welsh folk music group is Ar Log: "By the early eighties Ar Log was travelling Europe and North & South America for around nine months of the year with a wealth of traditional Welsh folk music at our disposal, from haunting love songs and harp airs, to melodic dance tunes, and rousing sea shanties." [3]
The most common Welsh folk song is the love song, with lyrics pertaining to the sorrow of parting or in praise of the girl. A few employ sexual metaphor and mention the act of bundling. After love songs, the ballad was a very popular form of song, with its tales of manual labour, agriculture and the everyday life.
Joseph Haydn wrote a collection of Welsh folk songs for George Thomson (1757–1851) one of which is based on Ar hyd y nos (The Live Long Night) Ferdinand Ries used the tune and variations upon it in Ouverture bardique (WoO 24, 1815). English composer Cyril Scott used the tune for the first of his three British Melodies for piano (1912). [12]
" Yma o Hyd" (English: "Still Here") is a Welsh-language folk song by Dafydd Iwan. The song was released during Iwan and Ar Log's "Taith Macsen" ("Macsen's Journey") tour in 1983. Since then it has continued to gain popularity at cultural and sporting events.
Ceri Rhys Matthews – a multi-instrumentalist, plays the pibgorn or Welsh bagpipes, wooden flute, and others; Fernhill – a folk band, that features Ceri Rhys Matthews and often employs the pibgorn; Carreg Lafar – a traditional Welsh folk group, featuring Antwn Owen Hicks, Linda Owen Jones, Rhian Evan Jones, James Rourke and Danny Kilbride
The Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes is a composition for symphonic orchestra, based on traditional Welsh nursery tunes and lullabies, composed by Grace Williams in 1940. Although not typical of Williams' work it brought her to prominence and is the composer's most popular work.
Welsh folk-song collectors (4 P) W. Welsh folk singers (20 P) Welsh folk songs (1 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Welsh folk music" The following 13 pages are in this ...