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Thread #105964   Message #3019468
Posted By: GUEST,Seligmanson
30-Oct-10 - 04:07 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: The music of Wales
Subject: RE: Folklore: The music of Wales
I am hoping some-one of you out there can settle something for me. I have several very fine Welsh tunes in my repertoire, (I'm English, by the way,) and love them as much for their characteristic Welshness as for their considerable musicality (my father's Welsh, by the way); but I feel I'm missing a trick. Many years ago I heard a group whose name I can't remember play several remarkable sets of tunes in 5/4 time, giving them a generic name I can't remember. In fact all I can remember is that they said they'd found them in a nineteenth century collection in either the National or the University Library of Wales. Now, I've been looking into the 'cabm pemp'('5-Step') of Cornwall, and as a result have been able extend my repertoire in that direction, even to the point of composing my own; but I'd really like to know about the Welsh branch of this particular tradition. Can any-one help?