Annotation:Griffith ap Cynan's Delight

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 GRIFFITH AP CYNAN'S DELIGHT. AKA - "Delight of Gruffydd ap Cynan (The)." Welsh, Air (4/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Gruffydd (Griffith) ap Cynan was King of Gwynedd (b. 1055 in Dublin) and the longest ruling Welsh Prince of Wales. The Encyclopedia Britannica of 1911 gives: Griffith ap Cynan, prince of North Wales, who had been born in Ireland, brought with him from that country many Irish musicians, ''who greatly improved the music of Wales. During his long reign of 56 years he offered great encouragement to bards, harpers and minstrels, and framed a code of laws for their better regulation. He held an Eisteddfod about the beginning of the 12th century at Caerwys in Flintshire, "to which there repaired all the musicians of Wales, and some also from England and Scotland." For many years afterwards the Eisteddfod appears to have been held triennially, and to have enforced the rigid observance of the enactments of Griffith ap Cynan.''  Source for notated version: Jones (Choice Collection of Fifty-One Welsh Airs (A)), c. 1840. Williamson (English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes), 1976; p. 43.  Printed sources:  Recorded sources:

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