Show hab I Il illa lq I 1 q claying two american friends stop stol i i with us we brought a nic nice e welsh I 1 P in j irom Dol gelly one evening to sing gir the national songs miss madge 11 ai pats pot erts a sweet pretty ia young lady and 4 singer went over an immense client music and miss a ai of welsh p katory artory abo epe ha is a very y sc ien made kil I 1 remarks on the peculiarities of any in welsh scale etc Sud suddenly defily she ex aa h imel 1 I catinat ca think what whit music mis C 4 to C that I 1 know th that a t these welsh tunes i 1 I it t to Is much resemble stay it is basque quel I 1 so I 1 nd ad the pr proceeded to hum three or four P it typical basque IL que bongs songs miss roberts III nd all of us instantly recognized the ami larity of these with the welsh es c M ally the oldest welsh songs which lii the te bad had been singing ringing miss jw S was very much surprised when 4 I 1 told her that professor boyd dawkins A bell kliever eved in the original identity of the and pre critic welsh a theory Is of which aich she bile was quite ignorant BO so that it her ber testimony to the similarity himi larity of the 4 national m music was entirely I 1 am not musical and my iny opinion is 11 of et no DO value yalu e but there does appear to me I 1 to be in the theold old welsh music as in a I 1 great geitt deal of the welsh character a distinctly non aryan sprite sprit liko elike character irreducible to the order so dear to the saxon soul the music goes on for a 10 few bars with aven even exaggerated emphasis on time as in a soldiers march then suddenly as if tired of it bound boun 03 01 among the bushes hop skip and never comes back I 1 london academy |