Annotation:Cader Idris

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 CADER IDRIS (Arthur's Chair). AKA and see "Jenny Jones," "Sweet Jenny Jones," "Widow on the Train." Welsh, Harp Air. A composition of the 19th century harper John Parry, 'Bardd Alaw', and named by him after the mountain in Meirionnydd, Wales. Parry did much to promote and popularize Welsh music in England in both music hall and fashionable society settings.

 Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources: Flying Fish FF70610, Robin Huw Bowen - "Telyn Berseiniol fy Ngwlad/Welsh Music on the Welsh Triple Harp" (1996).

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