Download or read book Welsh Traditional Music written by Phyllis Kinney and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Ten Welsh Folk songs written by David Vaughan Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Songs of Wales Caneuon Cymru written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blerwytirhwng The Place of Welsh Pop Music written by Sarah Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, Welsh-language popular music emerged as a vehicle for mobilizing a geographically dispersed community into political action. As the decades progressed, Welsh popular music developed beyond its acoustic folk roots, adopting the various styles of contemporary popular music, and ultimately gaining the cultural self-confidence to compete in the Anglo-American mainstream market. The resulting tensions, between Welsh and English, amateur and professional, rural and urban, the local and the international, necessitate the understanding of Welsh pop as part of a much larger cultural process. Not merely a 'Celtic' issue, the cultural struggles faced by Welsh speakers in a predominantly Anglophone environment are similar to those faced by innumerable other minority communities enduring political, social or linguistic domination. The aim of 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music is to explore the popular music which accompanied those struggles, to connect Wales to the larger Anglo-American popular culture, and to consider the shift in power from the dominant to the minority, the centre to the periphery. By surveying the development of Welsh-language popular music from 1945-2000, 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop examines those moments of crisis in Welsh cultural life which signalled a burgeoning sense of national identity, which challenged paradigms of linguistic belonging, and out of which emerged new expressions of Welshness.
Download or read book A History of Welsh Music written by Trevor Herbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Gems of Welsh Melody A Selection of popular Welsh Songs with English and Welsh words specimens of Pennillion Singing after the manner of North Wales and Welsh National Airs ancient and modern for the Pianoforte or Harp with Symphonies and Accompaniments by J Owen etc written by John Owen and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Songs of Wales Caneuon Cymru a Collection of the National Melodies with English words by Sir W Scott Mrs Hemans J Oxenford W Maynard and a complete Welsh adaptation by Ceiriog Hughes The Music edited with new Symphonies and Arrangements by B Richards written by Brinley Richards and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Characteristic Songs and Dances of All Nations written by James Duff Brown and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Timothy Rice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Celtic Song Book written by Alfred Perceval Graves and published by [London] : E. Benn. This book was released on 1928 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subject Headings Used in the Dictionary Catalogs of the Library of Congress from 1897 Through December 1955 written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by Washington : Library of Congress, Processing Department, Subject Cataloging Division. This book was released on 1957 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh Bards written by Edward Jones and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Welsh Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards written by Edward Jones (Bardd y brenin.) and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: