Annotation:Ar Hŷd y Nôs

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AR HŶD Y NÔS ("All Night Long" or "The Live-long Night). AKA and see "All Through the Night (1)," "Joys of Summer (The)," "Poor Mary Ann." Welsh, Air (whole time). B Flat Major (Bingley, Jones). AABB. The most famous Welsh air, often sung as a lullaby. The tune appears in Edward Jones’s first edition of Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784). Francis O'Neill gives a version under the title ""Joys of Summer (The)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: William Bingley (North Wales...delineated from two excursions, vol. 2), 1804; pp. 8-9. Jones (Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards), 1784; p. 151.

Recorded sources: Flying Fish FF70610, Robin Huw Bowen - "Telyn Berseiniol Fy Bgwlad/The Sweet Harp of My Land" (1996).

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