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Llef Harlech [Harlech's cry]

Found in woodenflute.abc from the Le Session abc collection

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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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