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Dilys Elwyn-Edwards
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Nov 3, 2026
Celtic Languages in Music Education: Part 1
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32:41Manon LlwydGUEST
But also, I think if I have to choose a song, There is a song called Gwisgoedd Neaf, which is actually a translation of an English poem by Yeats called He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.
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32:55Manon LlwydGUEST
And the composer of this song, it's been composed by many composers, but this particular Welsh composer called Dilys Elwyn Edwards, who's also passed away, actually, her melody... is, although it's kind of deemed classical song, but her melody is deemed from a very folky feeling.
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33:15Manon LlwydGUEST
So what's interesting about it is that you take where you come from and the next generation will take it to where they want to take it.
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33:24Manon LlwydGUEST
And I think there's just, and it's a beautiful song and I love it as a piece of music and it's very short and it's very poignant and it's translated into the Welsh language by a person called Mered who was a really famous, very, very famous and the first to record folk music in Welsh and he worked really hard as a collector.