Annotation:Loath to Depart (1)

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LOATH TO DEPART [1]. English, Air (6/4 time). C Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Kines (1964) says this was the "Auld Lang Syne" of the Elizabethan period and was mentioned in several works, including Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit at Several Weapons. It was set as a round for four voices in Deuteromelia. A Welsh tune called "Anodd Ymadael" (Loath to Depart) appears in Edward Jones' ('Bardd y Brenen') first volume of Welsh music The Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards (1784). Jones was harpist laureate to King George IV.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kines (Songs From Shakespeare's Plays and Popular Songs of Shakespeare's Time), 1964; pp. 102-103.

Recorded sources: Flying Fish FF70610, Robin Huw Bowen - "Telyn Berseiniol fy Ngwlad/Welsh Music on the Welsh Triple Harp" (1996).

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