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Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650 - A Study of the Principal Sources (Paperback)
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Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650 - A Study of the Principal Sources (Paperback)
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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.
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