Show 11 aubic welsh and il II asque raving having two american friends stopping with us we brought a nice welsh girl from Dol gelly one evening to sing to them the national songs miss madge roberts a sweet pretty young lady and excellent singer went over an immense repertory of welsh music and miss S who is ia a very scientific musician made many remarks on the peculiarities of the welsh scale etc suddenly she exclaimed 1 I cannot think nah what t music it is that I 1 know ihnow that these welsh ves so much resemble stay it is basque and she proceeded to lium three or four typical basque songs song s miss roberts and all of us instantly recognized the similarity of these with the welsh welches hes especially nee W ally ly tho the oldest welsh songs which the ahe had been singing g miss 8 was very much surprised when 1 I toli told her that professor boyd dawkins Daw Lins believed in the original identity of the basque and pre celtic welsh a theory of which she was quite im ignorant biant so BO that her testimony to the similarity of the national music was entirely spontaneous I 1 am not musical and my opinion is of no value but there does appear to me to bo be in the old welsh music as in a great deal of the welsh character a distinctly non aryan sprit elike character irreducible to the order so dear to the saxon soul the m music goes oes on for a few bars with even exaggerated emphasis erns ems on time as in a soldiers s march then suddenly as if tired of it bounds olf oil among the bushes hop skip ship sad 1 jump and never cornea comes bacal lawdon academy |