Welsh Folk Tune Myfanwy
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Welsh Folk Tune by Joseph Parry sung in Welsh by Richard Griffith to his travel pictures with his wife Kim in Wales. It is a sad love song of rejection by a beautiful woman named Myfanwy, and the last word, Ffarwel, is the same in English as in Welsh.
Singer is member of the Washington DC Welsh (St. David's Society) at www.washingtond...
Da iawn Rhisiart. Well accompanied and expressively sung with accurate intonation and pronunciation. The stills were excellent. Congratulatons on the viewing figures! Much enjoyed .
I agree that a male voice choir can sing this amazingly. But don't underestimate the Solo Singer and the amount of passion they can put into it!
Well some of the old beautiful and poetic Welsh names like Myfanwy have returned. Mystery and beauty are very attractive to me, love the old names, so distinctive and powerful.
I have to thank you deeply for that comment. Im no Rhydian, but the Welsh is so beautiful to sing, and when the weather is right, Wales is a dream of a place to be! Hope I can return again.
I live close to Seattle - My Welsh ancestors came here originally in the 1850-60's to (you guessed it) mine coal. When I was a child alot of the "old timmers" spoke Welsh. The singing was marvelous!! - Thanks giving me a chance to remember a wonderful childhood.
Blessings be Yours
my gr grandparents were from Blaenau Ffestiniog and i have visited there a few times, and Ive been to where my Great Grandfather lived on the Griffiths side. The Jones side is from Trefriw, Ysgubor Gerrig. One of my great aunts was from Trawsfynydd, a Roberts. Today I have relatives south of London, who moved there from Wales and i have visited them too. Welsh Music has moved me all my life since my grandfather sang Welsh songs when I was young and tried to help me understand his Welsh bible.
@squirell1952 Joseph Parry, was a Welshman from Merthyr who came to the US at 13, and became an ironworker in Pennsylvania, who wrote Myfanwy. He eventually returned to Wales and became a professor at the Univ of Wales. I have some old music he published at his own company in Abertawe. He was a brilliant song writer who wrote many hymns which are sung every day all over the world. He also wrote a wonderful opera, BLODWEN, but its seldom performed because it is all in welsh.
I have to agree. I sing in Italian, English and German besides Welsh, and for some reason songs sound the best in Welsh. Italian is a close second, but the range of expressiveness in the Welsh Language is a singers delight.
Joseph Parry was born in Merthyr Tydfil, but moved to Pennsylvania where he was an Iron worker. The Welsh community was very strong in Pennsylvania, and the National Festival of Wales is in Scranton this year. Parry eventually went back to Swansea, and had a music publishing house there. His music is fantastic, he's overlooked because he wrote in Welsh.
Diolch am dy sylw, ond diffuant wyt ti - thanks for your comment, but you are sincere, with good pronunciation and intonation. This strikes a chord with viewers which is reflected in your figures.
@ocserfal Conwy was indeed, but it was also the site of a glorious triumph by Rhys and Gwilym ap Tudor in 1403 when they took it from the English in a very daring raid. Also Dolbadarn, the Keep that is the main picture, was built by Llewellyn the Great in the 13th century and Owain Glyndwr imprisioned English noblemen in it during his rebellion. It is a fantastic place overlooking lake padarn. I have to get back there next year, its too enchanting a place to be away for so long.
@griffcats the weather is always right! Thats part of the beauty!! :D)
Fantastic, I have some original sheet music from his publishing company in Abertawe, where he was quite successful. He was accused by critics of not being sophisticated enough but his music went to the heart
I think this is brilliant - X-factor or what? He should have been on it and he would have won hands down. I am half Welsh. Really lovely.
This a beautiful personal account of this song. Shame on Vidiotization!
I am not a fluent Welsh speaker, though I have been singing in Welsh a long time. The song is about rejection from a beautiful woman. I understand that part only too well!
Beautiful!
my son is called dylan thomas, nothing to do with the poet,, we named him dylan coz of course we're welsh and love it, also Thomas was after my bamp :) i'm welsh through and through the only down side i speak very little welsh :(
we had to sing this in school last year ( bedwas high school )
@snaej2 thank you fof the kind comment, cheers
Wel done !
I unfortunately do not understand everything.
I've been learning for only a few weeks now.
but this is beautiful!
well, thanks for tellin me.
Hope to get back to the conwy valley in august 2013!
I am 7/16th welsh. My grandma said I had too thick oh a scandi /german tounge to learn Welsh as a child. Now is the time for me to pass a bit of the heritage along to my kids. I play guitar . Is there any place anyone can tell me where I can learn to play welsh song - in able to pass along the culture to my children??
Well, I have to say Im an american. Im going to keep quiet about my weight. I dont feel superior by studying Welsh culture, but I do enjoy it. The Welsh are the nonconformist, the outsiders, the Ancient, and the revolutionary and survivors together. Its not all pretty but it is a supremely enriching culture to study. My blood is my motive, but Wales by itself is my reward.
:D My girl! I just learned that one...
Wonderful - but better with a choir....plenty on UA-cam
I know, Im just learning how to do this. Ill make changes soon. Diolch
The Welsh community IS very strong imhensylvania. Check out Delta, Bangor, the Wyoming Valley, Radnor and Philadelphial We are still well aware that Penn is not an English name.
@ifuliki well said..CAB
Lovely.
Despite being Welsh, I can't sing!
The Welsh have been actively preserving and bolstering their language for a long, long, long time now; it's been successful. There's actually like... entire committees on the preservation of Cymraeg.
I meant to say I am not a cymro, im an american. Maybe I didnt understand "mi moyn bod"? I have very little Welsh.
I often get rejected.
Oh, I'm really sorry, I didn't realise that! I didn't mean to be delibarately confusing. I just said 'I want to be welsh now!' cause I'm not welsh either.
Diolch!
My Welsh is poor though I understand your poetic and sensitive comment.You bring up many thoughts I have ancestors from Trawsfynydd, and my uncle morris, a Welsh American with a British detachment, was severely wounded twice in Belguim in 1918. ellis evans had two connections to Myfanwy; a sister of the same name, and his character sings the song in an English pub in the movie. Diolch yn fawr
I'M FROM MERTHYR! haha
@ocserfal Oh, yeah, but we gorrom now tho, donwe, like.
what do you mean 'americans'? o.O
mae'r Gymraeg yn iaith bert iawn, rydw i yn falch iawn o allu sefyll lan a dweud fy mod yn dod o Gymru ac yn gallu siarad Cymraeg, yr iaith hynaf yn Ewrop!!
for hell sake its crap
diolch yn fawr iawn .. roedd yn gân hyfryd. Roeddwn i'n hoffi ei.
And , as everyone knows, the tune was written in Danville, Pennsylvania. BTW Penn is NOT and English name either.
Castell Conwy yn y lluniau! Prydferth o le (:
Karezza6 don't go back. It must have even a wet nightmare.
A most beautiful song, sung with feeling.
Dioloch in iawn.
aww, wi moyn bod yn gymro nawr!!
Rhys ere an sooo fuckin proud to be welsh
na, americanwyr
thank you. I first heard the Dunvant Welsh choir sing this some years ago, and have been in love with the song ever since. When the balance of tenors and basses is just right, there is such a great feeling from this song, so satisfying and pure in the blend of music and words. Joseph Parry was brilliant.
Wish I had your skill and power. Listened to your rendition of Lola again, tremendous range and sound you have, diolch yn fawr!
yes, my brother is in a Welsh choir in Delta, (The Rehoboth), and the National Festival of Wales was in Scranton in 2012, where there are many, many descendents of Welsh immigrants. A lot of Americans with Welsh heritage are learning Welsh now thanks to online sources, like say it in welsh. Hwyl!
That was beautiful to hear Richard,well done.where ever you are in the world always remember your roots.wales will always have a warm welcome home for you and your family.
Thank you. the song and rendition are beautiful.
And I say.
Good for you guys.
Well said Butty
Awfull version of this song - terrible vibrato - sounds full of himself - try playing the saw, it would sound better!
Da iawn! Roedd hwn yn fendigedig! Diolch yn yn fawr i chi!