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Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650 - A Study of the Principal Sources (Hardcover, New edition)
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Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650 - A Study of the Principal Sources (Hardcover, New edition)
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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. The book challenges two prevailing assumptions, both of
them false: namely that music in Wales before 1650 is impoverished
and elusive; and that the extant sources are too obscure to warrant
serious study. Harper demonstrates that there is a far wider body
of source material than is generally realised, comprising
liturgical manuscripts, archival materials, chronicles and
retrospective histories, inventories of pieces and players,
vernacular poetry, and treatises.The book is structured around
three distinct musical categories: the uniquely Welsh practice of
cerdd dant ('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 unique
musical tradition of considerable cultural significance, aspects of
which have an important bearing on wider musical practice beyond
Wales.
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