Y Cerddor and the National Council of Music
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- 1915-1945
Correspondence relating to the publication of Y Cerddor and the work of the National Council of Music.
Y Cerddor and the National Council of Music
Correspondence relating to the publication of Y Cerddor and the work of the National Council of Music.
Correspondence, 1899-1945, reflecting the various aspects of J. Lloyd Williams's interest in the music of Wales. Amongst the topics discussed are singing festivals, lectures, concerts, broadcasting and the publication and performance of his own works. Some letters also include references to Y Cerddor, and to the work of the Welsh Folk-Song Society.
Letters, 1892-1942, many from prominent botanists, mainly covering the period J. Lloyd Williams spent studying at the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, 1893-1897, as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Botany and Agricultural Botany at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1897-1915, and as Professor of Botany at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, from 1915 until his retirement in 1925.
Card indexes and lists of names of plants and flowers, together with related correspondence.
Notes of lectures delivered by J. Lloyd Williams, [1905x1937], relating mainly to plant life and often drawing analogies with life in general.
Correspondence, 1938-1945, between J. Lloyd Williams and Myfanwy Morris.
Morris, Myfanwy
Notebooks containing diary entries, recorded chronologically, relating to Welsh folk songs, music in schools, religious services broadcast on radio, and botany examinations.
Miscellaneous lectures and radio scripts
Lecture notes and radio scripts on topics other than music or botany.
The financial accounts of J. Lloyd Williams, a will written by him in 1906, and other miscellaneous items.
Accumulated manuscript volumes
Manuscript volumes, previously in the possession of musicians, collectors or precentors, and accumulated by Dr J. Lloyd Williams. Many were evidently acquired by him from J. H. Davies, Cwrt-mawr, and contain mainly folk songs and hymn tunes, recorded in eighteenth and nineteenth century Wales.
Individual collections and selections
Collections of folk songs, carols and ballads, including those of members of the Canorion and Welsh Folk-Song Society, and eisteddfodic competitors. The collections of J. Lloyd Williams himself are also included, together with his transcripts of individual manuscripts compiled by others, and printed sources.
Indexes and lists of folk songs, melodies and hymn tunes, compiled mainly by J. Lloyd Williams from various printed and manuscript sources.
Notes and press cuttings accumulated by J. Lloyd Williams during his researches into Welsh folk songs.
Manuscript and printed scores, together with related correspondence and papers, 1899-1938, relating to the cantata 'Aelwyd Angharad' by J. Lloyd Williams, words by Llew Tegid.
Correspondence, 1907-1941, relating to the publication of musical works by J. Lloyd Williams, the proposal to establish a 'Welsh Academy of Music', and the Iorwerth Glyndwr John Memorial Shield.
Diaries, journals and log books, 1871-1920, containing entries reflecting J. Lloyd Williams's interest, research and vocation in the field of botany, spanning his entire career.
Pocket diaries kept by J. Lloyd Williams, 1885-1945, containing only brief notes of appointments and engagements.