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MORFA RHUDDLAN. AKA - "Marsh of Rhuddlan (The)," "Rhuddlan Marsh." Welsh, Air (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Edward Jones, in Musical Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784) explains:

Morfa Rhuddlan, or the Red Marsh, on the banks of the Clwyd in Flintshire, was the scene of many Battles of the Welsh with the Saxons. At the memorable conflict in 795, the Welsh were unsuccessful and their Monarch, Caradog slain. It is unknown whether this celebrated tune took its name from this or some later occasion … This plaintive style, so predominant in Welsh music, is well adapted to melancholy subjects. Our Music probably received a Pathetic tincture from our distresses under the oppression of the Saxons.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5), Glasgow, 1797; No. 43, p. 17. Edward Jones (Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards), 1784;

Recorded sources:

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-''Printed sources'': Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5'''), Glasgow, 1797; No. 43, p. 17. Edward Jones ('''Musical Relicks of the Welsh Bards'''), 1784;
+''Printed sources'': Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5'''), Glasgow, 1797; No. 43, p. 17. Edward Jones ('''Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards'''), 1784;
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