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Welsh folk music (Welsh: Cerddoriaeth werin Gymreig) refers to music that is traditionally sung or played in Wales, by Welsh people or originating from Wales. Folk artists include; traditional bands Calan and Ar log ; harpists Sian James , Catrin Finch and Nansi Richards and folk singer Dafydd Iwan .
Folk songs originally in the Welsh language or from Wales. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. H. Mary Hopkin songs (8 P)
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.
Welsh Folk-Songs is the first album by Welsh folk music singer and collector Meredydd Evans, consisting of a cappella renditions of traditional Welsh-language folk songs.The album was recorded in New Hope, Pennsylvania after Moses Asch, founder of Folkways Records, contacted Evans, who was then studying at Princeton University.
The Ash Grove (Welsh: Llwyn Onn) is a traditional Welsh folk song whose melody has been set to numerous sets of lyrics. The best-known English lyrics were written by Thomas Oliphant in the 19th century.
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]
"Marwnad yr Ehedydd" ("The Lark's Elegy") is a traditional Welsh folk song. A single verse was published by the Welsh Folk Song Society in 1914. [1] It was attributed to the singing of Edward Vaughan, Plas-rhiw-Saeson, collected by Soley Thomas.
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 ...