Annotation:Pen-Rhaw

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PEN-RHAW. Welsh, Air (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A traditional Welsh harp air. Robin Huw Bowen remarks that the piece has been a vehicle in the past for penillion, a type of singing verses to harp airs which demands that the singer start after the harp, render the song (of a different metre and phrase length) in counterpoint, and finish at the same time!

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Recorded sources: Flying Fish FF70610, Robin Huw Bowen – “Telyn Berseiniol Fy Ngwlad/The Sweet Harp of My Land” (1996).

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