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Show Music the Kernel ofTTelsh Nature. Music is the very soul and kernel of the Welsh nature. A musical ear is the national birthright. Every Welsh preacher preach-er who migrates to an English church finds the greatest difficulty in abstaining from that weird, peculiar intonation of his sermon which is known as the hwyl, and which is of ten strange and objectionable objection-able to English ears. A remarkable and subtle fact which will be interesting to English readers and at the same time significant of the sensitiveness of the Welsh musical ear is that it is positive discord to many among the Welsh congregations if tho minister, in "giving out" the first verse of the hymn, does not so pitch his voice that it shall be in harmony with the key in which the tune has preliminarily been played by the instrumentalist. Westminster West-minster Review. |
