A History of Welsh Music

Trevor Herbert, Martin V. Clarke, Helen Barlow

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781009041874
• Topic: Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas
• Subtopic: Música

From early medieval bards to the bands of the 'Cool Cymru' era, this book looks at Welsh musical practices and traditions, the forces that have influenced and directed them, and the ways in which the idea of Wales as a 'musical nation' has been formed and embedded in popular consciousness in Wales and beyond. Beginning with early medieval descriptions of musical life in Wales, the book provides both an overarching study of Welsh music history and detailed consideration of the ideas, beliefs, practices and institutions that shaped it. Topics include the eisteddfod, the church and the chapel, the influence of the Welsh language and Welsh cultural traditions, the scholarship of the Celtic Revival and the folk song movement, the impacts of industrialization and digitization, and exposure to broader trends in popular culture, including commercial popular music and sport.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Maps
• List of Music Examples
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary
• Maps
• Chapter 1 Music in Welsh History
• Chapter 2 Words for Music: Describing Musical Practices in Medieval Welsh Literature
• Chapter 3 Music in Worship before 1650
• Chapter 4 Secular Music before 1650
• Chapter 5 The Eisteddfod Tradition
• Chapter 6 Women and Welsh Folk Song
• Chapter 7 Instrumental Traditions after 1650
• Chapter 8 The Celtic Revival
• Chapter 9 Musical Communications in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 10 Nonconformists and Their Music
• Chapter 11 Professionalisation in the Twentieth Century
• Chapter 12 Composing Cymru: Art Music since 1940
• Chapter 13 Traditions and Interventions: Popular Music 1840–1940
• Chapter 14 New Traditions: Welsh Popular Music into the Twenty-First Century
• Chapter 15 Singing Welshness: Sport, Music and the Crowd
• Chapter 16 Postscript: Contemporary Wales, Devolution and Digitisation
• Appendix 1 Selective, Chronological List of Traditional Music Published up to 1920
• Appendix 2 Selective, Chronological List of Hymn Collections Published in Wales or for Use by Welsh Congregations from 1621 to 1900
• Appendix 3 Selective List of Major Published and Manuscript Sources Available in Open-Access Digitised Form
• Bibliography
• Index