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Letters O-U

The correspondents include Llew Owain (2), Thomas Parry (6), Iorwerth Peate (6), D. Rhys Phillips (5), Evan Roberts, Llandderfel (17), R. E. Vaughan Roberts (8), R. Gwylfa Roberts (2), Robert Roberts ('Isallt') (5), Arthur Somervell (2), Mansel Thomas (1), and Undeb Cymanfaoedd Canu Alawon Gwerin Cymru (12).

Dr J. Lloyd Williams Music MSS and Papers

  • GB 0210 JLLW
  • Fonds
  • [?1750]-1946 (predominantly 1870-1945) (accumulated 1870-1946)

Music manuscripts and papers, [c. 1750]-1945, including hundreds of folk songs brought together by Dr J. Lloyd Williams in his role as Editor of the Welsh Folk-Song Society, and papers relating to his researches into the history of Welsh music; material relating to his interest and vocation in the field of botany, 1871-1942; and personal papers, [?1870]-1946.

Williams, J. Lloyd (John Lloyd), 1854-1945

Letters from J. Lloyd Williams

The addressees include Grace Gwyneddon Davies (1), J. H. Davies (1), Prof. David Evans (2), A. G. Gilchrist (1), E. J. Grutchfield (3), Ruth Lewis (3), Myfanwy Morris (2), Thomas Parry (2), Iorwerth Peate (1), and D. E. Parry Williams (1).

Accumulated manuscript volumes

Manuscript volumes, previously in the possession of musicians, collectors or precentors, and accumulated by Dr J. Lloyd Williams. Many were evidently acquired by him from J. H. Davies, Cwrt-mawr, and contain mainly folk songs and hymn tunes, recorded in eighteenth and nineteenth century Wales.

Photographs

Photographs of Joseph Parry (mistakenly identified as Pencerdd Gwalia on the back of the photograph), Edith Wynne and three unidentified individuals; together with the publicity leaflets of Mme. Laura Evans-Williams.

Roberts, R. E. Vaughan - Y

Correspondents include R. E. Vaughan Roberts (3), R. Silyn Roberts (1), Robert Roberts ('Bob Tai'r Felin') (2), Robert Roberts ('Isallt') (10), Cecil Sharp (2), Jennie Thomas (1), Philip Thomas (8), T. Soley Thomas (2), A. Leslie Tusler (1), J. Ellis Williams (1), Jennie Williams (8), R. Vaughan Williams (1), and W. S. Gwynn Williams (3).

Fiddler's tune-book

A composite volume containing two treatises in Welsh on angling and musical theory, three lists of tune titles, and a large collection of tunes, compiled by John Thomas for the violin, some from printed sources and others written down from oral tradition. The tunes have been published, with related notes, in Cass Meurig (ed.), Alawon John Thomas: a fiddler's tune-book from eighteenth-century Wales (Aberystwyth, 2004).

Thomas, John, fl. 1752

Melus geingciau Deheubarth Cymru

A volume of melodies, [c. 1815], being the original of 'Melus Geingciau [sic] Deheubarth Cymru or The Melodies of South Wales' (f. 1), containing some fifty-six tunes collected by Ifor Ceri [?and others], some with words.
The volume consists of twenty-seven tunes, numbered 1-27, in the hand of Ifor Ceri, thirteen with Welsh lyrics appended (ff. 2 verso-27 verso); a further twenty-nine unnumbered tunes (including duplicates of a few already in the volume) in the hand of Ifor Ceri (ff. 18, 19-20, 21, 22 verso-23, 25, 26, 27, 28-33 verso); and thirteen tunes inserted in spaces by a different hand (ff. 2, 3 verso-5, 8-10, 11 verso-12, 13, 15-17, 24).

Jenkins, John, 1770-1829

Choir register

A University College of North Wales Class Register containing the attendance records of members of the College's Royal Choir, July 1911, and Graduation Choir, November 1911. A programme of music for the graduation ceremony, November 1906, in J. Lloyd Williams's hand, is also included.

Concerts

Notices of concerts, 1885 and 1892, in which J. Lloyd Williams was the accompanist, minutes of a meeting of the Garn Juvenile Choir, August 1882, and the programme of a 'Magic Lantern' held at Garn schoolroom, November 1884.

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