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From the Maple Comes Music:- a Lecture-Recital on the Welsh Crwth by J. Marshall Bevil, Ph.D.
From the Maple Comes Music:- a Lecture-Recital on the Welsh Crwth by
J. Marshall Bevil, Ph.D.
24, 25 September, 2011; 1:00 P.M.
Outdoor Theater, Barnsdall Park
4800 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California, USA
24, 25 September, 2011; 1:00 P.M.
Outdoor Theater, Barnsdall Park
4800 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California, USA
This presentation will address the history, the evolution, and the music of both the modern, or final, form of the crwth (ca. 1500-1850) and its forebears. The introduction to the presentation, as well as subsequent sections addressing the modern crwth, will include examples of dance music and ballad tunes performed on a 1970 reconstruction of the modern instrument. The presentation will close with three folktales about crythorion , or crwth-players, from the three periods in the modern crwths life (ca. 1500-1600, 1600-1730, 1730-1850). Each story will be followed by music from the time and place.
The main portion of the presentation will address the etymology of the word crwth , the place of the lyre in general and the crwth in particular within the string instrument family, the evolution of the modern crwth from earlier plucked and bowed lyres that were used throughout Europe, the change in the status of crwth players from that of itinerant minstrels to resident folk fiddlers after ca. 1500, and the place of the crwth and its player in the Welsh social order from the early sixteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries. The last of those includes the demise of the instrument, knowledge of how to play it, and much of its music, all of which were lost with the collapse of native musical culture in the face of the evangelical movement from ca. 1730-1850.
In addition to musical examples, there will be visual examples, either in a limited number of handout booklets or on a large flip-chart. It is regretted that a projector and screen will not be available at the outdoor theater. While viewing the illustrations is not imperative to an understanding of the presentation, seating near the front could be advantageous in the event that a flip-chart is used.
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Dr. Bevil in period costume circa 1830 |
His masters thesis, The Welsh Crwth, Its History, and Its Genealogy, involved three years of research and writing, including the summer of 1972, which he spent in Britain. Although completed in 1973, that document and its companion sound recording, which together ultimately reached dissertation proportions, remain standard reference material on the crwth. Since completing his masters and terminal degrees, Dr. Bevil has made presentations on the crwth, including both broadcasts and a paper read at a chapter meeting of the American Musicological Society.
Online links of possible interest include:
llywarch/cth01.html.htm - thesis abstract
llywarch/disab.html.htm - dissertation abstract
http://home.earthlink.net/~llywarch/pubpr.html.htm - list of publications and presentations
http://home.earthlink.net/~llywarch/tnc02.html.htm - post-doctoral investigation, question of music played during the Titanic disaster
http://home.earthlink.net/~llywarch/ku2009.html - post-doctoral investigation, linguistic basis of British national musical style, ca. 1870-1920
www.scoreexchange.com - compositions online (under Browse by Composer / B
2011 AmeriCymru interview with Dr Bevil:- http://americymru.net/profiles/blogs/an-interview-with-jack-bevil
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