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NOTES ON NATIONAL MUSIC.
Fitzsimon's Irish Minstrelsy. 1S14. 2 vols.
Thomson (George). Select Collection of Original Irish Airs.
London, 1814-16. 2 vols.
Smith (R. A.). Irish Minstrel. 1825.
CROUCH (F. N. ). Songs of Erin. London. 1841.
HoRN'CASTLE (F. W.). Music of Ireland. 1844.
Lynch (J. P.). Melodies of Ireland. (1845.)
O'Daly. Poets and Poetry of Munster. 1849-60. 2 vols.
I'ETRIE (Oeorge). Ancient Music of Ireland. Dublin, 1855.
JOYCE (Patrick W.). Ancient Irish Music. Dublin, 1873.
Hoffmann. Ancient Music of Ireland, from the Petrie
collection. 1S77.
Moffat (Alfred). Minstrelsy of Ireland. Two hundred
Irish songs. . . with historical notes. London, 1897.
WALES.
Welsh national music is not only fostered at the great festivals held throughout the country, but
is intelligently and lovingly cultivated by the people at large. Peasants, miners, and industrial workers
of all kinds know and can sing the majority of the Welsh folk songs, and those who have heard a
good Welsh choir engaged in rendering some of the more martial melodies are not likely to forget
the performance. Like many other countries Wales is deficient on the poetical side, and consequently
suffers both from the lack of fine Welsh original words and adequate English translations. A Welsh
Burns, or even a Moore, is greatly needed.
The collections enumerated below represent but a small number of those actually issued. It
may be said generally that the Welsh collection, combining scholarship with poetical and musical
taste, has yet to appear.
Parry (John) and Evan Williams. Antient British Music,
or a collection of tunes never before published, which
are retained by the Cambro-Britons, more particularly
in North Wales. London, 1742.
Jones (Edward). Musical and Poetical Relicks of the
Welsh Bards. London, 1784. Second edition, 1794.
Bardic Museum. London, 1802. Vol. ii. of above.
Thomson (George). Select Collection of Original Welsh
Airs. London, 1809. 3 vols.
Parry (John). Cambrian Harmony. London (1810).
Parry (John), Bardd Alaw. The Welsh Harper. London
(1839-48). 2 vols.
Williams (Maria Jane). Ancient National Airs of Gwent
and Morganwg. Llandovery, 1844.
Thomas (John), Ieuan Dhu. The Cambrian Minstrel.
Merthyr, 1845.
Owen (John). Gems of Welsh Melody. Ruthin (i860).
Thomas (John), Pencerdd Gwa.Ua. Collection of Welsh
Melodies. London, 1862. 2 vols., and editions in 4
vols, and 1 vol.
Parry (Joseph). Cambrian Minstrelsie. Edinburgh, 1890.
6 vols.
MANX.
Mona Melodies, a collection of ancient and original airs of
the Isle of Man. London, 1820.
Moore (A. W.). Manx Ballads and Music. Douglas, 1896.
Gill(W. H.). Manx National Songs. London. 1896.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
Owing chiefly to the mixture of races in the empire of Austria-Hungary, its folk music is of
the most varied and interesting kind. With Germans, Hungarians, Moravians, Poles, Bohemians,
Croats, Bosnians, Roumanians, and minor nationalities, all contributing to the common stock, it is
not remarkable to find immense differences in the national music of the empire. Apart from this,
the Austrians — to use this name for the whole — are perhaps the most musical nation in the world ;
that is to say, as regards the almost universal cultivation of music. At any rate, there can be no
doubt about this as regards the Hungarian or Magyar people, who possess a body of national songs
second only in number and interest to those of Scotland. Unfortunately, like the music of savage
peoples, Hungarian music loses much of its peculiar quality when not performed in its native
environment by native performers. A genuine Hungarian folk song sung by a foreigner is a very
different thing from a real native performance. It is impossible in such limited space to do more
than merely name a few of the older and most useful collections of Austrian folk music.
AUSTRIAN ; GERMAN AND SLAVONIC.
Wenzig (Joseph). Slawische Volkslieder (jbersetzt. Halle,
1830. (Bohemian, Wendish, Bulgarian, and other
Slavonic songs. )
KuhaC (F. S. ). Juzno - Slovjenske Narodne Popievke
(National songs of the Southern Slavs). 1878-ST.
TSCHISCHKA and Schottky. Oesterreichische Volkslieder.
Pesth, 1844.
Spaun (Anton Ritter von). Die Oesterreichischen Volks-
weisen. Vienna, 1845.
Susz (Maria V.). Salzburgische Volks-Lieder. Salzburg,
1865.
MORAVIA.
Susil (Frantisek). Moravske Narodni PisnJ. Briinn, 1840.
Enlarged edition, i860.
BOHEMIA.
ErbenA (K. J.). Napewy Pjsnj Narodnjch u Cechach.
(Collection of 300 Bohemian songs. ) Prague, 1847.
HUNGARY.
Matray (G.). Magyar Nepdalok. Ofen, 1852. Pesth,
185S. 2 vols. (Hungarian songs. )
The songs of Austrian Poland (Galicia) are noted under Russia.