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Parry, John, ca. 1710-1782
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Ancient British music,

  • NLW MS 9643D.
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An imperfect copy of John Parry: A Brief Account of the British or Cambrian Music; 1742, with manuscript titles, and with transcripts supplied by D. Emlyn Evans.

D. Emlyn Evans.

Comparative study

A chronological comparative list of airs in Antient [sic] British Music by John Parry and Evan Williams, British Harmony by John Parry, and Relicks of the Welsh Bards by Edward Jones.

John Parry ('Y Telynor Dall'),

A composite volume containing John Parry ('Y Telynor Dall'): Antient British Music ... (London, 1742), A Collection of Welsh, English & Scotch Airs ... (London [1752]), and British Harmony ... (London, 1781), and a manuscript of John Parry containing arias, minuets, overtures, concertos, Welsh airs, etc., partly with variations by John Parry himself and by Evan Williams [bookseller, London]. Copious manuscript annotations have been added by Nicholas Bennett. Also bound or pasted down in the volume are a note on provenance by E[van] D. J[ones], [19]07; a comment by Carl Engel on Antient British Music ...; an invoice from Bernard Quaritch, London, to N. Bennett, 1888, for Antient British Music ...; a portrait of John Parry; a list by Mary Davies, 1911, of 'Names of tunes written in a copy of Ancient British Music ... 1742 belonging to R. Morris now in British Museum in Addit. MSS. 14939'; critical observations by D. Emlyn Evans on individual songs in Antient British Music ...; and holograph letters from D. Emlyn Evans, Cemmes, Mont., to Mr. Lewis [L. W. Lewis, 'Llew Llwyfo'], [19]07, from Lady Llanover, Llanover, Abergavenny, to the Rev. J. Harmer, 1888, and from Joseph Joseph, F.S.A., Brecon, to [ ], 1888. The spine is lettered 'Vol. I. Antient British Music. J. Parry Rhuabon Blind. 1742'.

John Parry and others.

Music,

An early nineteenth century volume whose contents are described on a paper label on the upper cover as 'Harp Music & Songs'. The titles include 'Arietta' by [?Michele] Mortellari, 'Swedish Air', 'Zephir', 'Sicilian Muleteer's Song', 'Accompanyment to Portuguese Air', 'Irish Air', 'Indian Dirge', 'German March', 'March', 'Romance' by [Étienne Nicolas] Méhul, 'Additional variations to Llangollen Vale', 'Gently touch the Warbling lyre', 'Cudyn Gwyn', 'Codiad yr Haul', 'Plygaid y bedol', [ ] by [John] Parry [of Ruabon], 'Welsh Air with Variations', 'Wallace' by [ ] Weippert, 'Llangollen Vale' by [ ] Tomlins, 'Savourna Delish' by [ Johann Bernhard] Logier, 'Rousseau's dream', [ ] 'From Lord Lothian', 'Rest weary Traveller' ('var: Kiallmark'), 'Ah pria the l'impegno' by [Joseph] Gelinek, 'On this Cold flinty rock', 'Arietta Romana', 'A rose tree in full bearing' (variations by Meyer), 'Count Sax's Minuet', 'Meillionen or Sir Watkins Delight', 'Ysgin Aur', 'Rhyban Morfydd' ('Gosteg or Prelud[e]'), 'Megen a Gollodd ei gardas', 'Rondo pour la Harpe', 'Das Mädchen', 'Air in Alonzo & Imogene', 'Dance', 'Meillionen', 'Pray Goody', 'Hoffder y Gwyneddigion', 'Oh no we never mention her', 'Dunque non sentj O Barbara', 'My lodging is on the cold ground', 'Air-Count Neuburg', 'Bugle Tune', 'March', 'Sweet Richard', 'Adagio' (Mora's Love), 'Grand March in Didone' by [Michele] Mortellari, 'Caingc Llywelyn', 'Brown Irish Girl', 'My Heart & Lute', 'La Poisonniere', 'Der Tippich Kramer', 'Fly not yet', 'Go where Glory waits thee', 'La cidarem la mano' by [Wolfgang Amadeus] Mozart, 'Pastoral Sinfonia' by [Ludwig van] Beethoven, 'Romance from the Opera of Joseph' by Mehul, 'The Legacy', 'Largo Lee', 'Twas within a mile of Edinburgh town', etc.

Music,

An early nineteenth century music book containing a selection of vocal and instrumental pieces. The titles include 'La Notte. Arietta italiana', 'Ebben per mia memoria' by [Gioacchino Antonio] Rossini, 'Louise de Chimay ', 'Minuet and Rondo by Mr. Gwynne' ('Welsh'), 'Lady Alda's Dream' by Mrs . [ ] Arkwright, 'Serenade', 'Lesson' by [John] Parry [of Ruabon], 'Chorus from Iphigenia' by [Christoph Willibald Ritter von] Gluck, 'The Maltese Mariner's Hymn', 'Mac Lean's Welcome' ('from the Gaelic'), 'Mrs. Garden of Trrup's Strathspey', 'Winter's Song. Words & music by [ ] Bayly', 'Parry's lesson', 'Garth's Rondo', 'The Dusty Miller', 'Lady Shaftsbury', 'Hymmo Constitucional', 'The Coronach' by [ ] Clarke, 'Tyrolienne', 'Trio', 'La Burasca', 'Canzone' by [Giuseppe] Millico, 'Lady Mary Ramsays Strathspey', 'Countess of Lauderdales reel', 'New rigged ship ', 'Era felice un di' by [ ] Mayer, 'La Partenza', 'March of the 4th Dragoon Guards', 'Russian Waltz', 'Austrian Lindler', 'Waltz', 'Quadrille ', 'Vien qua Dorina bella', 'March' by Count Neuberg, [ ] from 'Mose in Egitto' [by Rossini], 'Minuet in the Ballet of Nina', 'Preciosa' by [Carl Maria von] Weber, 'Heu, Heu, reicht mir Nectar' by [Sigismund] Neukomm, 'Das Heimweh', 'Duo', [ ] by G. Prescentini, [ ] by [Giacomo Gotifredo] Ferrari, 'Gallopade', 'Galloppe', 'Waltz' by P. ?Upsilanti, 'Trio', 'Waltz' by Miss [ ] Smith, 'Song of Peace' by W[illiam] Carnaby, ' 133d Psalm' by Neukomm, 'Hymn for Midnight', [ ] by [Johann Friedrich] Edelman[n], 'Old English Melody', [ ] by [Johann Nepomuk] Hummel, 'The Highland Widow', 'O the gusto' ('Barcarole'), 'Lied in der Fremde' by Weber, 'Thekla' by [Johann Rudolf] Zumsteeg, 'Thekla eine Geistnstimme' by [ Friedrich Ludwig) Seidel, 'Nehmt euch in acht' by [Vincenzo] Righini, 'Les premiers Amours' by N[icolo] d'Isouard, 'Twilight' ('Welsh'), [ ] by [ Ludwig van] Beethoven, 'Rode's Air', 'Theme Allemand' by [ ] Künten, 'Vien diletto è in ciel la Luna' from 'I Puritani' by [Vincenzo] Bellini, 'Su questa man concedi' from 'U[ltimo] G[iorna] de Pompeii' by [Giovanni Pacini], 'Dans la prairie fraiche et fleurie', 'Double chant', [ ] by W[ illiam] Jackson, 'Psalm 145' (emended to 15), 'Valse', 'Funeral March in Saul', 'March' by [Henri] Herz, 'Ah Dove Sei', 'Tyrolienne', 'Round' by [ ] Bononcini, 'Minuet in Ariadne' by [George Frederic] Handel, 'Valse compose par le Baron Seymour de Constant', 'Waltz' by Beethoven (emended to [Franz] Schubert), 'A Greek Air' (words by Lord Byron), 'The Fairy Bells' by Mrs. [ ] Norton, 'Weber's last song', [ ] by J[oseph] P[ hilip] Knight, 'Y Gadlys', 'Y Ferch o'r Sker', 'Con quel occhietto' by [ Giuseppe Marco Maria Felice] Blangini, 'I come creeping', 'Our Mother's voice' by Mary Selwyn, 'The Hermitage' by [ ] Drobisch, 'Canzonet' by Capt. Harington, 'Hindostanee Air' (words by W. Kennedy), 'The Song of other times', 'Duettino' by Blangini, 'Jenny Jones', 'Waltz' by Beethoven, ‘'Deutches Rheinlied' by Nicholas Becken, 'Morning Hymn' by F[rangois Hippolyte] Bartheleman, 'In mia man Alfin to sei', 'Duet. Norma' by Bellini, 'Galoppe from the Daughters of the Danube', 'Oh the merry days', 'Monferino' ('Guitar Music'), 'Rondo', 'Words from Woodstock' by Mrs. Arkwright, 'The Song of Phillipa Cahigel of Badajos', 'Lebe Wohl', etc. On the fly- leaves are English words to 'Glan meddwdod mwyn' and to the old Scotch air of 'He's dear to me tho' he's far away'.

Music,

A music book of Mary Thereza Talbot, 1816. The titles include 'Cudyn Gwyn ', 'Diniweudrydd Colomen', 'Lesson' by [John] Parry [of Ruabon], 'Welsh Rondo', 'Lesson' by Parry, 'White January days' ('Welsh'), 'Old tooth Psalm', '139 Psalm', 'The Morning Hymn', 'Rhyfelgyrch Cadpen Morgan', 'Gorhoffedd Gwyr Harlech', 'Twll yn ei Boch', 'Breuddywd y Frenhines', 'Triban Gwyr Morgannwg', 'Plygaid y Bedol', 'Ar hyd y nos', 'Tlysig', 'Merch Megan', 'Mentra Gwen', 'Three Hundred Pounds' ('Welsh'), 'Conway Castle', 'Y Derien Du Pig Felin', 'Ferch o Bedlam', 'I heard the Cuckoo', 'Diddan Captain Morgan', 'Hoffedd Modryb Marged', 'Codiad yr Hedydd', 'A favourite Scotch Air' by [P. J.] Meyer, senior, 'The Queen's Minuet', 'The Spanish Patriots', 'The Anna Maria Waltz', 'A Waltz', 'Polonaise', 'Waltz der Tirol', 'The Atholl Highlander's March', 'German Air', 'Waltz', 'L'Anacreon', 'Le Jeune Honzard' (arranged for the harp), 'Russian Sauteuse', 'La Plaisanterie', 'An Air', 'Cawdor Fair', 'Austrian Waltz', 'Italian Air ', 'Bonnie Fanny', 'Neapolitan Waltz', 'Air in Psyche', 'A Madrigal', 'Barcarola', 'Minuet Lady Coventry's', 'Miss Wynnes Minuet', 'The Harriot', 'Waltz', 'Lord Sr. Orville', 'Put the gown upon the Bishop' ('very old'), 'The M. S. S. Waltz', 'Paddy Carey', 'Shelah O'Niel', 'A Chieftain to the Highlands', 'The Saxon Dance', 'Une Soirée d'été', 'Le garçon volage', 'The lass that was laden with care', 'Callar Herring' by N. Gow, 'Lord Beauchamp's March', 'Wetztein Waltz', 'From la Rosiere', 'The Guittar Dance in Telise', 'Swiss Allemande', 'Quadrille', 'A Spanish tune', 'Waltz',’ 'Allegretto Allemande', 'Mary's Favorite', 'Glamorganshire Rang des Vaches', 'There's nae Luck about the house', 'Dutch Minuetto', 'Le Cobourg ', 'Felton's Minuet', 'The land of the Leal', and 'O! Jenny'.

Mary Thereza Talbot.

Music,

An early nineteenth century volume of airs, dances, etc., said on a label on the protective paper cover to have been 'copied by Mr. Gwynn of Llanbrain' [i.e., Glanbrân in co. Brecknock]. The titles include 'Lovly Nancy', 'Lady Northe's Minuet', 'Lady Fearans Minuet', 'Farwel to Mancher ', 'Air By Captain Heaky', 'Gavot in the 10t Sonato of Correlli-Ruabon', 'Barbarianas Minuet-Ruabon', 'Parris Minuet', 'Minuet In Samson-Ruabon', 'Gin thou wert Mine ain thing', 'Minuet By Mr. [John] Parry [of Ruabon]', 'Count Sax's Minuet by Mr Parry', 'Of a Noble Race Was Shenkin. With Mr. Parrys Vars.', 'Shenkin', 'God Save the King With Vars', 'Handel's Water Musick', 'Minuet in Ariadne', 'The Lass of Paties Mill. Vars. by Mr. Parry ', 'Gavot Alegro' by John Stanley, 'Burton's Chese', 'The Lass that was Laden With Care . . .', 'Gavot Alegro' by John Stanly, 'Rhyddlan Marsh, by Mr. Parry, Ruabon', 'Gavot in Otho', 'Thro the Wood Laddie', 'Highland Laddie' by Mr. Pary, 'Horse to New-Market', 'The Lien Solo of Correli', 'Meillionen or Sir Watkins Delight' by John Parry, 'Disobri', 'Roslin Castel', 'Minuet in Rodelinda' (1770), 'Pitts Hornpipe', and 'An Air by Mr. Deebourgh'.

Y Tri Thelynor

Papers and correspondence, 1935-1944, relating to J. Lloyd Williams's work on the harpists Edward Jones ('Bardd y Brenin'), John Parry, Rhiwabon, and Ifan Williams ('Ifan Delynor').