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Notes of a lecture relating to the Welsh 'Hwyl', delivered at Denbigh, 1934; another recorded in Dr Walford Davies's musical 'At Home' programme; and a lecture entitled 'Pregethwyr a'u Lleisio', delivered at Bala, December 1922. Preparatory notes and other related papers include comments on the characteristics of contemporary Welsh preachers.

A card index compiled by J. Lloyd Williams, listing the titles of hymn tunes, including sol-fa notation and sometimes the words of hymns. This sequence is followed by an index to journals relating to Welsh music and collections of early Welsh poetry, together with cards noting historical landmarks, 178-949 AD.

A number of hymn tunes, psalms and related notes and press cuttings, [1840], [1906x1930], mostly in J. Lloyd Williams's hand but also including notes by Mary Davies and a few related letters, 1918-1929, from others. Notes of a lecture entitled 'Caniadaeth y Cysegr', delivered at Aberystwyth in 1926, are also included, together with a reference to a folk song in the Ifor Ceri MSS.

Printed and manuscript hymn tunes and anthems.

J. Lloyd Williams's comments on hymn-singing festivals, 1907-1916; together with related notes.

An adjudication of hymn-tunes entered for competition at the Newcastle Emlyn singing festival, 1937; together with the entries and a related letter.

An exercise book containing mainly J. Lloyd Williams's ideas for songs, hymns and anthems.

Transcripts by J. Lloyd Williams of the manuscripts, [1815-1825], of Ifor Ceri, together with margin notes.

Material relating to the manuscripts of John Jenkins ('Ifor Ceri'), compiled by J. Lloyd Williams and including a list of some 258 tunes which Ifor Ceri sent to Bardd Alaw, 1820 and 1826; a catalogue of Ifor Ceri papers at the National Library of Wales; and an index comparing the location of tunes in the Ifor Ceri Manuscripts, The Welsh Harper and Alawon fy Ngwlad.

Miscellaneous musical scores, many incomplete, including folk songs, hymns, carols, and fragments of J. Lloyd Williams's own compositions.

Indexes and lists of folk songs, melodies and hymn tunes, compiled mainly by J. Lloyd Williams from various printed and manuscript sources.

Collections of folk songs, carols and ballads, including those of members of the Canorion and Welsh Folk-Song Society, and eisteddfodic competitors. The collections of J. Lloyd Williams himself are also included, together with his transcripts of individual manuscripts compiled by others, and printed sources.

Correspondence, 1924-1929, mainly relating to the National Eisteddfod Folk Song competition for the Iorwerth Glyndwr John Shield, and includes a letter from Dora Herbert Jones. A letter from Sir Walford Davies, 1929, refers apparently to the publication of the second part of the series of song books for schools by the Council of Music.

A volume of traditional Welsh airs collected and apparently arranged by James Hugh Israel, [?1849].

A volume of Welsh and English songs apparently collected by Miss Jane Catherine Lloyd, [c. 1850].

Folk songs collected by Jennie Williams, apparently at Aberystwyth and Carmarthen, [1910x1917], together with one related letter from her to J. Lloyd Williams.

A selection by J. Lloyd Williams of songs collected in the Ffestiniog and Trawsfynydd areas by John Morris of Blaenau Ffestiniog. A number have been published in the Journal of the Welsh Folk-Song Society.

Annotated transcripts by J. Lloyd Williams of selections of the works of John Parry, Rhiwabon.

Papers relating mainly to the harpists John Parry and Ifan Williams, including letters from Bob Owen, Croesor, and Cybi, 1943, and miscellaneous notes and quotations from various sources.

A volume of English tunes and songs belonging to John Powell, Llanfihangel[-?y-Pennant].