minstrel: [Fwd: [MK8]Holiday Song Histories]

[hrjones at socrates.berkeley.edu]

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Patricia Yarrow wrote:

> Tangwystyl:
> <<> Deck the Hall
> 
> Good question. This isn't in my edition of the Oxford book (which tends to
> omit purely secular songs). The "standard" _Welsh_ lyrics to this tune
> ("Oer yw'r gwr sy'n methu caru etc.") were composed by John "Ceiriog"
> Hughes and first published in 1873 in Brinley Richards' "Songs of
> Wales">>

> The tune also appears under the title "Nos Galan" in one of Jones' Relics 
> of the Welsh Bards collections, either 1794 or 1804.  There are Welsh 
> lyrics appropriate to the New Year.  I don't have my copy handy, so I can't 
> say how they compare with the lyrics by Hughes, but I can dig them up and 
> post them if anyone's interested.

I thought "Relics", as originally published, only had tunes -- no lyrics
for them -- but it's been an awfully long time since I had a look at the
book, and the references I can find to it mention tunes and poetry but
aren't clear about tune-plus-lyric combinations.

Tangwystyl

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Heather Rose Jones         hrjones at socrates.berkeley.edu
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