Annotation:Gwenith Gwyn

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 GWENITH GWYN. AKA - "Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn" (Watching the White Wheat). Welsh, Air (3/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. One of the Welsh tunes Walker (1924) cites as having "artistic strength of a high order"--"beautiful", he says. "Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn:" is an 18th century tragic love song set to the air.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Walker (History of Music in England), 1924; No. 116, p. 327.  Recorded sources:

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