Annotation:Hên Dòn (Yr)
X:1 T:Yr Hên Dòn T:Old Ditty, The M:C L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Largo" B:Edward Jones – Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784, p. 142) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F V:1 F|f2 f>g f_edc|d2 B_e dcBA|G>ABc dBBc|(A>F) (=E>G) F3:| |:F|B2 Bc dcBA|(B>c)BA TG3A|B>ABc dBcA|GB^F>A G2 z=F| B2 dc Bc d2|c>ced cd e2|[F3B3d3f3]_e d>ccB|(AF) (=E>G) F3!fermata!:|] V:2 clef = bass z|B,,2B,2A,2F,2|B,2_E,2 F,2D,2|_E,2D,C, B,,2G,,2|C,2 C,,2 [F,,3F,3]:| |:z|D,2F,2B,2 B,,C,|D,2B,,2 _E,F,E,D,|G,2 G,A, B,2C2|D2 D,2 G,,G,F,_E,| D,2F,2D,2B,,2|F,2C,2A,2 F,_E,|D,2A,,2B,,2G,,2|C,2C,,2[F,,3F,3]:|
HÊN DÒN, YR (The old ditty). Welsh, Air (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. As the title states, this plaintive song air was collected by the anglicized Welsh harper Edward Jones, printed in his Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784), and was an old melody at that time. "'Yr Hên Dòn' has some characteristics of music associated with debating songs and its original context may well have been sung faster than the largo of Jones's harp/harpsichord arrangement"[1].
- ↑ Joan Rimmer, "Edward Jones's Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, 1784: A Re-Assessment", The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 39 (Sept., 1986), p. 83
