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Cerdd Dant (Welsh for 'string music', or
penillion) is the art of
vocal improvisation over a
given melody in
Welsh musical...
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Scottish Gaelic language.
Reels Pibroch Cerdd Dant (string music) or Canu
Penillion (verse singing) is the art of
vocal improvisation over a
given melody...
- (1967)
Violin Sonata, Op. 586 (1973/2007)
Piano Quartet, Op. 179 (1974)
Penillion for
violin & piano, Op. 571 (1975/2005) Jazz
Dances for
violin & piano...
- by the BBC in 1953.
Extra verses have been added,
mostly from the 'Hen
Penillion' (Old Stanzas). "Ar Lan y Môr" has been
frequently recorded. Notably,...
- for her
services to music. Williams' most
enduringly po****r work is
Penillion,
written for the
National Youth Orchestra of
Wales in 1955. She revisited...
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considered to be the
national instrument of
Wales and is used to
accompany penillion singing (or
cerdd dant)
where the
harpist plays a
melody and the singer...
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British folk
revival of the
early 1900s, some of the
verses in the Hen
Penillion (Old Stanzas) were
exploded into
longer songs, for
example Ar Lan y Môr...
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Robert (fl1717-1750) were
tenants at Gwernhefyn. Thomas, W. J. (1894).
Penillion telyn, Rhan 1. Caernarfon:
Gwymni y
Cyhoeddwys Cymreig. Thomas, W. J....
- "the
Eisteddfod is
essentially competitive:
there are
competitions for
penillion, and englynion, and male
voice choirs, and
poems in
strict meter, and...
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efforts of
Nansi Richards, Llio
Rhydderch and
Robin Huw Bowen. The
penillion is a
traditional form of
Welsh singing poetry,
accompanied by the harp...
