An Organist's Welsh Collection
| Publisher | BANKS MUSIC PUBLICATIONS |
| Composer | Antony Baldwin |
| Voice/Instrument | ORGAN |
| Difficulty | Unrated |
As in Antony Baldwin's two Scottish collections, the main concern has been to provide organists with straightforward material for funerals, memorial services, and other public occasions where a truly national flavour is required. Most of the tunes are secular in origin, and of unknown authorship. In these, the part writing has been kept simple, and the pedal parts are not difficult. Experienced organists should feel free to expand these brief harmonisations through repetition, modulation, improvisation, “soloing out” or simple contrapuntal techniques.
"Massive thanks must go to Lois Bowen - Welsh through and through, a fluent Welsh speaker and graduate of the University of Wales. Her appreciation of my harmonisation of National Melodies provided a mainspring for this book. She insisted that my Welsh was correct at all times and alerted me to tunes I would have otherwise overlooked, ensuring both cultural authenticity and sensitivity." - Antony Baldwin
CONTENTS:
Adieu to dear Cambria! (Yn iach i ti Gymru)
All through the night (Ar hyd y nos)
Calon Lân (A pure heart)
David of the white rock (Dafydd y garreg wen)
Idle days in summertime (Bugeilio'r gwenith gwyn)
In the vale of Llangollen (Yn nyffryn Llangollen)
Land of my fathers (Hen wlad fy Nhadau)
Megan’s fair daughter (Merch Megan)
Men of Harlech (Rhyfelgyrch gwyr Harlech)
Myfanwy
Over the stone (Tros y garreg)
Suo Gân (Lullaby)
The Ash Grove (Llwyn onn)
The bells of Aberdovey (Clychau Aberdyfi)
HYMN TUNE HARMONISATIONS
Aberystwyth
Blaenwern
Cwm Rhondda
Ebenezer (Tôn-y-Botel)
Hyfrydol
Llanfair
St. Denio
