Annotation:Griffith ap Cynan's Delight
X:1 T:Diddanwch Gruffydd ap Cynan T:Delight of Gruffydd ap Cenan M:C L:1/8 N:Jones states:”Prince Gruffy dap Cynan, the great Patron and N:reformer of the Bards; Flourished An:Dom: 1100.” R:Air Q:"Andante Affetuoso" B:Edward Jones – Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784, p. 148) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Dmin V:1 F2E2D2 d>^c|d2 A>G F4|ABcA B4|EFGE ^C4| F2 E>F/2E/4 D2d2|defd ^c2 =Bc|d2A2A2_B2|(A2G2)[A,4C4E4A4]:| |:(d3e)^c2A2|[D2d2][E2e2][F4f4]|c2 cd c2B2|A2 A/B/c TF4| G^FGA G4|defd ^c2 =Bc|[F2d2]A2 B2G2|!fermata![D2F2]TE2{DE}{D}!fermata!D4:|] V:2 clef = bass D,2E,2F,2E,2|D,2^C,2 D,E,F,E,|D,4 G,A,B,G,|G,2E,2 A,G,F,E,| D,2E,2F,2D,2|B,2G,2A,2G,2|F,4D,4|B,,4A,,4:| |:F,2G,2A,2G,2|F,2E,2D,4|F,,2F,2E,2C,2|F,2E,2 D,E,F,D,| ^C,2E,2 A,,C,E,G,|F,2D,2A,2A,,2|D,4 B,,4|[A,2D,2F,2][A,2^C,2E,2] [D,,4F,,4A,,4D,4]:|]
GRIFFITH AP CYNAN'S DELIGHT (Diddanwch Gruffydd ap Cynan). 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. He was reputed to have been a great patron and practitioner of music, including Irish musicians whom he brought to 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.
