X:1
T:Brenddreyd
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Thomas D. Lleweln – “Llewelyn Alaw’s Collection of Unpublished Welsh
B:Airs” (1858, No. 2, p. 1)
N:Harper Llewelyn Alaw’s (1828-1879, Aberdare, Wales) won the prize for Welsh
N:airs at the Llangollen Eisteddfod of 1858.
B:https://viewer.library.wales/5822313#?xywh=1091%2C1938%2C2327%2C1953&cv=5
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:C
G|G>G GG|Bd zB|c>d ef|g3e|d>B BB|BG zB|
A>G FE|D2 z::A|d>D DE|FE zD|G2 G>B|A2 z(F/G/)|
A2 AA|(A/B/c) zc|B>G EE|c2 c[EG]|[FA]>[GB] [FA][EG]|[D2F2] z[Ac]|
[df]>[Bd] [eg][ce]|[d2f2][Bd][GB]|AG G>[FA]|[G2B2]z:|]
BRENDDWYD Y BARDD (The Bard's Dream). Welsh, Air. An air that, unlike many Welsh airs for which antiquity is claimed, is evidently quite old, according to Kidson (Groves). "It is so purely Dorian in character that it must date from a time when the modes were in practical use."
