{"id":622,"date":"2019-11-18T16:34:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T16:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lofw.celfapps.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2019-11-18T16:52:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T16:52:35","slug":"musical-treasure-ty-cerdd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lofw.celfapps.com\/cy\/musical-treasure-ty-cerdd\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical treasure: T\u0177 Cerdd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cardiff – the capital city of Wales<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve come this morning to Cardiff Bay, Wales to visit T\u0177 Cerdd<\/a>, who bring the music of Wales to the Welsh nation and to the world; it\u2019s the home of Welsh music.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The T\u0177 Cerdd team are working with the Landscapes of Faith project over the next year to help uncover musical treasure in South Wales, from the past and in modern Wales today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The T\u0177 Cerdd  team are working for the next year on South Wales musical landscapes of faith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

T\u0177 Cerdd<\/a>\u2019s archive curator Ethan took me into the collection housed in the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay to show me some of the rich history that is held there. It can be visited by the public, by appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ethan is the team’s research officer and archivist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The T\u0177 Cerdd collection includes published and hand-written manuscripts by Welsh composers, past and present. Choirs, musicians and scholars regularly make use of the archive here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 19th<\/sup> century introduction of Sol-fa notation gave large numbers of people in Wales the opportunity to sing in harmony. Handel\u2019s oratorio \u2018\u2019The Messiah\u2019 became one of the most sung pieces of music in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The archive also contains contemporary Welsh music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was fascinated to find books of hymns written, in his own beautiful copperplate hand, by Aberdare  coal miner John Coleman. His literary outputs were considerable and celebrated. The fair copies of his hymns are on the shelves in the archives of T\u0177 Cerdd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aberdare coal miner John Coleman was a hymn writer – beautifully set down in pen and ink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another delight in the collection is a box of Lyfrau Pricio,\na Welsh 19th<\/sup> century tradition of collecting hymns tunes in little\nmanuscript books. They were used by musicians who travelled around Wales\nteaching new hymns, and then people made their own personal collections to be\nable to sing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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19th century Lyfrau Pricio – personal handwritten collections of hymns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This musical score (below) is a facsimile of 17th century music for harp by Welsh composer Robert ap Huw (1580 \u2013 1665).\u00a0 The bardic culture of medieval Wales has its roots deep in ancient world music traditions, and these are still played and sung in Wales today. This week I will go to London to see Bragod<\/a> perform music by Robert ap Huw in the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert ap Huw’s 17th century music for bardic harp and voice performance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

T\u0177 Cerdd’s archive also contains many books and periodicals on Welsh music that can be read and researched by the public, by appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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T<\/a>\u0177 Cerdd<\/a> is a publishing house, and music available for purchase from Welsh composers is shipped all over the world for performance by choirs, orchestras and musicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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T\u0177 Cerdd  is a music publishing house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

T\u0177 Cerdd is also a record label, supporting and distributing contemporary and traditional Welsh music. They have an in-house studio and promote Welsh composition and performance, giving public access via the T\u0177 Cerdd label<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Contemporary Welsh music is for sale through the T\u0177 Cerdd\u00a0 record label <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Over the next year we\u2019ll be joining with T\u0177 Cerdd<\/a> to explore the musical landscapes of faith in South Wales, and we\u2019re inviting anyone with news of musical treasure to get in touch with us\u2026 we\u2019re looking forward to the treasure hunt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve come this morning to Cardiff Bay, Wales to visit T\u0177 Cerdd, who bring the music of Wales to the Welsh nation and to the world; it\u2019s the home of Welsh music.  The T\u0177 Cerdd team are working with the Landscapes of Faith project over the next year to help uncover musical treasure in South<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lofw.celfapps.com\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lofw.celfapps.com\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lofw.celfapps.com\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofw.celfapps.com\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofw.celfapps.com\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lofw.celfapps.com\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/lofw.celfapps.com\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lofw.celfapps.com\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofw.celfapps.com\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofw.celfapps.com\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}