Two Welsh Folk Songs (Tenor)

Voice and piano. Advanced grade. Welsh, and English translation.

• Si hwi hwi, c.2'10
• Robin Ddiog, c.1'20

The composers was inspired by Meredyddm Evan’s (1919-2015) haughtingly beautiful singing of ‘Si-hwi-hwi’. Of equal interest were the newer words of this old melody written by the north Welshman Glan Dwyryd who travelled to America around 1853 to work in the quarries where he witnessed slaves being sold on the market. His lyrics, sung from the perspective of a slave woman to her baby, written in support of the anti-slave movement, and gives the lullaby a much darker tone.
As a contrast, ‘Robin Ddiog’ is a simple Welsh nursery rhyme with repeated phrases about the perfect ‘tidy house’ by the sea and its contented occupant who lives, it seems, without a care in the world.

Composed 2021

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