A History of Welsh Music

Contents

• 1. Music in Welsh history Trevor Herbert;
• 2. Words for music: describing musical practices in medieval Welsh literature Helen Fulton;
• 3. Music in worship before 1650 John Harper;
• 4. Secular music before 1650 Sally Harper;
• 5. The eisteddfod tradition Rhidian Griffiths;
• 6. Women and Welsh folk song Wyn Thomas;
• 7. Instrumental traditions after 1650 Rhidian Griffiths, Trevor Herbert and Stephen P. Rees;
• 8. The Celtic revival Helen Barlow;
• 9. Musical communications in the long nineteenth century Rhidian Griffiths;
• 10. Nonconformists and their music Martin V. Clarke;
• 11. Professionalisation in the twentieth century Lyn Davies;
• 12. Composing Cymru: Art music since 1940 Nicholas Jones;
• 13. Traditions and interventions: popular music 1840-1940 Trevor Herbert;
• 14. New traditions: Welsh popular music into the twenty-first century Sarah Hill;
• 15. Singing Welshness: Sport, music and the Crowd Helen Barlow and Martin V. Clarke;
• 16. Postscript: Contemporary Wales, devolution and digitisation Trevor Herbert, Sally Harper and Sarah Hill.