Edward Jones Collection

Edward Jones Collection


These tunes were transcribed by Brian Martin from a book that was published around 1840, titled "A Choice Collection of Fifty-One Welsh Airs adapted for The Harp, Piano-Forte, Harpsichord, Violin, or Flute by Edward Jones Harper to His Late Majesty King George IV, when Prince of Wales".

Brian writes:

The tunes I'm sending with this e-mail come from an undated facsimile of an undated collection. I can't remember when or where I obtained it, but I think I've had it on the shelf for between fifteen and twenty years. The original was "Printed and Published by H. Humphreys, Bookseller, Stationer, & Printseller to her Majesty the Queen, Castle Square, opposite the Castle Hotel" in Carnarvon. Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837 and the Regency period ended in 1820, hence my dating it as c.1840. I've listed the tunes in the order they are in the facsimile and have needed to do remarkably little editing. The translations of titles are all as given - and as indicated, some of them don't meet with my approval. I hasten to add that I am far from being expert at the use of the Welsh language, which in any case, is variable, but I do believe my modern dictionary.