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Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650: A Study of the Principal Sources [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Sally Harper (Author) "The most significant, distinctive, and yet most elusive, music of medieval and early modern Wales is 'the craft of the string' or cerdd dant, played..." (more)

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Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Ashgate; illustrated edition edition (24 May 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0754652637
ISBN-13: 978-0754652632
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.4 x 3.6 cm
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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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Sally Harper is Senior Postgraduate Tutor at the School of Music, University of Wales Bangor, UK.

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