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Llef Harlech [Harlech's cry]
Found in woodenflute.abc
from the Le Session abc collection
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The background information for the tune is:
X: 273 T:Llef Harlech [Harlech's cry] R:? C:trad, second part variation by Antwn Owen Hicks D:Carreg Lafar 'Hyn', Sain SCD 2205 H:> From: Keith Davies Jones <kjones@cc.umanitoba.ca> 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, Dr William Crotch, professor of H:sic H:> at Oxford University, published it in a compilation of lectures entit H:d H:> 'Specimens of Various Styles of Music'. In 1963, Sir Thomas and Lady H:> Parry-Williams wrote the words 'Beth yw'r haf i mi?', and the song H:> came home again to Wales. H:> (Huw Williams, 'Canu'r Bobol', 1978) Z:Lesl M:C| K:Edor
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