Welsh Hymnody

Featured Hymns & Tunes:

Arglwydd, arwain trwy’r anialwch
Dyma gariad fel y moroedd

ABERYSTWYTH
AR HYD Y NOS
BLAENWERN
CAPEL Y DDÔL
CARIAD
CWM RHONDDA
EBENEZER (TÔN-Y-BOTEL)
HYFRYDOL
LLAN BAGLAN
LLANFAIR
RHUDDLAN
ST DENIO

Featured Authors & Composers:

Thomas John Williams
William Williams

Related Resources:

W. Glanffrwd Thomas, “Welsh hymnody,” A Dictionary of Hymnology, ed. John Julian (London: J. Murray, 1892), pp. 1249–1254: HathiTrust

H. Elvet Lewis, With Christ Among the Miners: Incidents and Impressions of the Welsh Revival (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907): Google Books

L.J. Hopkin-James and T.C. Evans, eds., Hen Gwndidau, Carolau, a Chywyddau (Bangor, 1914).

Rhidian Griffiths, “Welsh chapel music: The making of a tradition,” Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical History, vol. 6 (1989).

Alan Luff, Welsh Hymns and Their Tunes (Carol Stream, IL: Hope, 1990).

Meredydd Evans, “Canu Cymru yn yr unfed ganrif ar bymtheg” [“singing in Wales in the sixteenth century”], Cof Cenedl, vol. 13 (1998), pp. 33−67.

Sally Harper, “Tunes for a Welsh Psalter: Edmwnd Prys’s Llyfr y Salmau,” Studia Celtica, vol. 36 (2004), pp. 221−65.

Sally Harper, Music in Welsh Culture before 1650: A Study of the Principal Sources (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).

E. Wyn James, “The evolution of the Welsh hymn,” Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales, ed. Isabel Rivers & David L. Wykes (Oxford: University Press, 2011).

James Deaville and Katherine Stopa, “‘Singin’ in the Reign’: Voice, Faith and the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905,” Martin V. Clarke, ed., Music and Theology in Nineteenth-century Britain (Farnham, 2012).

H.A. Hodges, Flame in the Mountains: William Pantycelyn, Ann Griffiths and the Welsh Hymn, ed. E. Wyn James (Ceredigion, Wales: Y Lolfa, 2017): Amazon

E. Wyn James, “German chorales and American songs and solos: Contrasting chapters in Welsh congregational hymn singing,” HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 22, no. 2 (Spring 2018), pp. 43–53.

Sally Harper & Alan Luff, “Welsh hymnody,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology: CDH

Dictionary of Welsh Biography: https://biography.wales/

Welsh Hymn Society: http://www.emynau.org/