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GLÂN MEDDWDOD MWYN (Good Humoured & Fairly Tipsy). Welsh, Air (3/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in Edward Jones' (1752-1824) Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, a volume first published in 1784, and subsequently released in further, ever expanding editions into the 19th century. Jones was born at Lladerfel, near Bala in north Wales, but at the age of twenty-two he moved to London, where he established a musical career for nearly half a century. In a letter dated Oct. 5, 1819, on Welsh music written to the The Cambro-Briton (1820, vol. 1, p. 96), John Parry says:

"Glan Meddwdod Mwyn" or "Good humoured and fairly tipsy".--It is impossible to give a faithful translation of "Glan meddwdod mwyn." The air is a very beautiful one, and very frequently sung in Wales; as a two-part song it is exceedingly effective. Many Pennillion on various subjects are chaunted to this tune, the metre of which is long, consisting of eleven syllables: e.g."

"If friendship and love be not blessings divine,
In life there's no pleasure, no music in song."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Jones (Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards), 1808; p. 149.

Recorded sources: Crasdant - "Crasdant" (1999).

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-'''GLÂN MEDDWDOD MWYN''' (Good Humoured & Fairly Tipsy). Welsh, Air (3/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in Edward Jones' (1752-1824) Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, a volume first published in 1784, and subsequently released in further, ever expanding editions into the 19th century. Jones was born at Lladerfel, near Bala in north Wales, but at the age of twenty-two he moved to London, where he established a musical career for nearly half a century. , writing in his '''The Cambro-Briton, vol. 1''' (1820), says:
+'''GLÂN MEDDWDOD MWYN''' (Good Humoured & Fairly Tipsy). Welsh, Air (3/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in Edward Jones' (1752-1824) Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, a volume first published in 1784, and subsequently released in further, ever expanding editions into the 19th century. Jones was born at Lladerfel, near Bala in north Wales, but at the age of twenty-two he moved to London, where he established a musical career for nearly half a century. In a letter dated Oct. 5, 1819, on Welsh music written to the '''The Cambro-Briton''' (1820, vol. 1, p. 96), John Parry says:
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