Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650
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Author_Sally Harper
Bangor Pontifical
bardic musicology
Cadwedigaeth Cerdd Dannau
Caerwys Eisteddfodau
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Cerdd Dafod
Cerdd Dannau
Cerdd Dant
Clynnog Fawr
crwth performance practice
Crwth Player
Dafydd Ap Gwilym
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early modern Welsh musical traditions
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Gruffudd Ap Cynan
Iolo Goch
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liturgical chant sources
Llanbadarn Fawr
medieval Welsh manuscripts
Penpont Antiphoner
Philip Ap Rhys
Robert Ap Huw
Sarum Use adaptation
Sir Thomas Myddleton
St Asaph
St Davids Cathedral
St Winefride
vernacular poetry analysis
Vicars Choral
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754652632
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Music in Wales has long been a neglected area. Scholars have been deterred both by the need for a knowledge of the Welsh language, and by the fact that an oral tradition in Wales persisted far later than in other parts of Britain, resulting in a limited number of sources with conventional notation. Sally Harper provides the first serious study of Welsh music before 1650 and draws on a wide range of sources in Welsh, Latin and English to illuminate early musical practice. This book challenges and refutes two widely held assumptions - that music in Wales before 1650 is impoverished and elusive, and that the extant sources are too obscure and fragmentary to warrant serious study. Harper demonstrates that there is a far wider body of source material than is generally realized, comprising liturgical manuscripts, archival materials, chronicles and retrospective histories, inventories of pieces and players, vernacular poetry and treatises. This book examines three principal areas: the unique tradition of cerdd dant (literally 'the music of the string') for harp and crwth; the Latin liturgy in Wales and its embellishment, and 'Anglicised' sacred and secular materials from c.1580, which show Welsh music mirroring English practice. Taken together, the primary material presented in this book bears witness to a flourishing and distinctive musical tradition of considerable cultural significance, aspects of which have an important impact on wider musical practice beyond Wales.
Sally Harper is a senior lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Studies in the School of Music, University of Wales, Bangor, where she also directs the Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies and edits the bilingual journal Welsh Music History / Hanes Cerddoriaeth Cymru. Brought up in the West Midlands, she moved to Anglesey in 1991, and now speaks Welsh fluently. She has written widely on music and culture in medieval and early modern Wales, although her first book was a study of Benedictine medieval liturgy, and she continues to work in this field. She also has interests in the music of the contemporary church.
