Cornish

Welcome to Make Your Mark, Notes on Music Education.

Yusefov, I'm Yusef, and if you're confused by the introduction, that's because you're not familiar with Cornish, or at least my terrible interpretation of it.

This month, our focus is on Celtic languages and how they interact with music education across these isles.

We're joined by music educators who are speakers in Canoic, Cymraeg and Scottish Gaelic.

I'll come to Steve now.

Yes, there's lots of projects that the music service in Cornwall gets involved in.

There's individuals who have learned Cornish and will use arrangements of jingle bells translated into Cornish or whatever it is with their instrumental lessons.

There's larger scale projects as well.

When Caesar landed, Gauls and Belgians were already here before him.

As for the Britons themselves, they were Celts, as were the Gauls and the Belgians, but of what is called the Brythonic branch, represented in speech by the Welsh, Breton, and Cornish languages.

The last is now extinct.

There were also lingering among them the surviving families of an earlier and a conquered race, perhaps Basques or Finns.

There is also buried here, as he should be, Sir Christopher Wren himself.

But those who visit the cathedral desire most to see the tombs of Wellington and Nelson.

The remains of the former lie in a great sarcophagus worked out of a single piece of Cornish porphyry.

Those of the admiral were placed first in a coffin made from the mainmast of the French ship L'Orient, taken at the Battle of the Nile.

But it's confusing because there's basically what we have is three different cultures and more, but three major ones, the Scottish, the Irish, the Welsh, and of course, then Breton, which is a combination of the rest of Great Britain, and the mainland in France.

Multiple languages, Welsh, the two Gaelic languages of Irish and Scottish, and also at one point Cornish, which is pretty much a dead language at this point, or at least mostly.

So what we find is that most of the stories are written down later.

And they're endowed during the Christian period, which means that in a lot of cases, they're not really described as gods or goddesses.

I'm not touching medieval French.

You know, you need to engage with Welsh, possibly with Cornish, possibly with Irish Gaelic or Scots.

You have to go into mainland Europe.

It's a melting pot of different cultures, many of which would not have considered each other the same.