Cwynfan Brydain

Also known as: The Lamentation of Britain

Cwynfan Brydain: an Welsh air in G minor. Sheet music and playback in any key, at any tempo. Alaw werin o Gymru (alaw yn G leiaf): y sgôr a chwarae mewn unrhyw gywair.

Tune type

alaw

Key

G minor

Time signature

4/4

Composer / arranger

Trad

Book

51 Welsh Airs

History

From a facsimile c.1840: A Choice Collection of Fifty-One Welsh Airs adapted for The Harp, Piano-Forte, Harpsichord, Violin, or Flute by Edward Jones "Harper to His Late Majesty King George IV, when Prince of Wales".

Source

https://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/BrianMartin/msg/ejones.abc

X:1
T:Cwynfan Brydain
T:The Lamentation of Britain
C:Trad
B:51 Welsh Airs
S:https://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/BrianMartin/msg/ejones.abc
A:Wales
H:From a facsimile c.1840: A Choice Collection of Fifty-One Welsh Airs adapted for The Harp, Piano-Forte, Harpsichord, Violin, or Flute by Edward Jones "Harper to His Late Majesty King George IV, when Prince of Wales".
N:Transcribed by Brian Martin
R:alaw
M:C
L:1/4
Q:100
K:Gm
% Grace note {GA} moved after the bar line, to the note it leads to.
"^Slow and Pathetic"z2B2|G>AB>c|(BA)zB|GcBA|G^FzB|GAB>B|cde2|(d>c){Bc}BA|GG2z:||
z2G/A/B/c/|dded|dBA>B|c2d>c|BAd2|G>ABd|cBA2:||
z2B2|GdBA|G^FzB|GdBG|^FAB>B|cdB{AB}A|{GA}G4:||

Welsh airs (Alaw)