Llef Harlech [Harlech's cry]

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T:Llef Harlech [Harlech's cry]
H:> From: Keith Davies Jones <kjones@cc.umanitoba.ca>
H:> Subject: Llef Harlech
H:>
H:> This tune was noted down sometime in the late eighteenth century by a
H:> German violinist, Johann Baptist Malchair, who heard it sung 'in the
H:> vicinity of Harlech Castle'. In 1807,
H:> Dr William Crotch, professor of music at Oxford University, published
H:> it in a compilation of lectures entitled 'Specimens of
H:> Various Styles of
H:> Music'. In 1963, Sir Thomas and Lady Parry-Williams wrote the words
H:> 'Beth yw'r haf i mi?', and the song came home again to Wales.
H:>
H:> (Huw Williams, 'Canu'r Bobol', 1978)
N:second part variations by Antwn, thank you.
D:Careg Lafar 'Hyn'
Z:Lesl
M:C|
K:Edor
|:eBBA B2AG|FGAB GFE2|EBBA B2AG|FGAF E4:|
|:EBBA B2AB|d3d cBAF|EBBA B2AB|dBAF E4:||

Alternative sources for this tune:

• natunelist.net/llef-harlech-harlechs-cry/index.html/0001