Annotation:Loath to Depart (1)

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LOATH TO DEPART [1]. English, Air (6/4 time). C Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. There are several 'loath to depart' tunes, notes Chappell (1859), which could be any song sung or tune played at the parting of friends or a leave-taking. 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 (act ii, sc. 2). A Welsh tune called "Anodd Ymadael" (Loath to Depart) appears in Edward Jones' (1752-1824, known as '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: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 1), 1859; p. 102. 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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