View source for Annotation:Morva Rhuddlan

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|f_annotation='''MORVA RHUDDLAN''' (The Marsh of Rhuddlan). AKA - "Morfa Rhiddlan." Welsh, Air (3/4 time). D Minor (Wright): A Minor (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Wright): AABB (Aird). Claims have been made for an eighth-century date for this tune, without any solid evidence; this is in keeping with quite extravagant attributions of age to many Welsh melodies. The melody is said to commemorate the savage defeat of the Welsh by the Saxons at a battle at Rhuddlan Marsh in 795. Walker (1924) names it as one of the Welsh tunes "marked by artistic strength of a high order," while Frank Kidson ('''Groves''') says it is a "fine melody." 
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Welsh fiddler John Thomas entered the tune in his music copybook, dated 1752.  
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|f_printed_sources=James Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5'''), Glasgow, 1801, No. 43, p. 17.  Wright ('''Aria di Camera'''), 1727; No. 49. 
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|f_see_also_listing=Hear a harp/flute version on youtube.com [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJAdMnkYVvI]<br>
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