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Volume 6 of Welsh Music History published

The sixth volume of the bilingual journal Welsh Music History/Hanes Cerddoriaeth Cymru, edited from the School of Music by Sally Harper and Wyn Thomas, was launched at the end of 2004. Publication of this issue was facilitated by the generous financial support received from the University’s Welsh Teaching and Learning Committee.

Volume six has the usual wide range of articles, and features contributions from some particularly distinguished scholars. The leading authority on Welsh medieval manuscripts, Daniel Huws (former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library) writes on the Robert ap Huw Manuscript, David Klausner (Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto) on a series of little-known Jacobean masques written in Wales, and Dr Rhidian Griffiths (Director of Public Services at the National Library of Wales) on the nineteenth-century Swansea music printer, Benjamin Parry. There are also contributions on Welsh underground music at the turn of the twentieth century, and on a harp manuscript of 1745, demonstrating the art of canu gyda’r tannau (literally ‘singing with the strings’).

The volume is dedicated to the memory of Frans Buisman, specialist cataloguer at Amsterdam University Library and a great supporter of the Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies, who was tragically killed in a cycling accident in September 2002. His article on the relationship between Socts pibroch and early Welsh harp music opens the volume.

For more information on Welsh Music History/Hanes Cerddoriaeth Cymru, click here