{"slug": "meirionydd", "name": "MEIRIONYDD", "meter_label": "7.6.7.6.D", "meter": {"pattern": [7, 6, 7, 6], "doubled": true, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "composer": "william-lloyd", "composer_date": "1840", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "es", "mode": "major"}, "preferred_harmonization": "meirionydd-cyberhymnal", "provenance": {"layer": "tune", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "MEIRIONYDD (7.6.7.6.D), a Welsh hymn tune by William Lloyd (1786-1852), the self-taught musician of Rhos-goch, Llaniestyn, Ll\u0177n, Caernarvonshire; first published 1840 as BERTH in R. Mills's Caniadau Seion (Songs of Zion). The Cyber Hymnal engraving's \"William Freeman Lloyd, 1840\" credit is a common mis-attribution (William Freeman Lloyd, 1791-1853, was an English hymn-writer, not this tune's composer); attribution to William Lloyd is per Hymnary.org (hymnary.org/tune/meirionydd_lloyd) and the Dictionary of Hymnology. A public-domain four-part setting encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI via tools/mid2ly.py and read against the Cyber Hymnal engraving (E-flat major, 4/4 with a two-beat anacrusis). All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Meirionydd\" (William Freeman Lloyd, 1840); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "harmonization": {"slug": "meirionydd-cyberhymnal", "tune": "meirionydd", "music_file": "meirionydd-cyberhymnal.ly", "harmonizer": null, "arrangement_type": "harmonization", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "es", "mode": "major"}, "time": "4/4", "pickup": "2", "system_breaks": [9, 16, 25, 32, 39, 47, 56], "final_barline": "|.", "amen": false, "verse_variable_melisma": true, "refrain": null, "source_line": "MEIRIONYDD, William Lloyd, 1840. Public domain.", "provenance": {"layer": "harmonization", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Tune MEIRIONYDD (7.6.7.6.D) by William Lloyd (1786-1852), first published 1840 as BERTH in R. Mills's Caniadau Seion (the Cyber Hymnal engraving's \"William Freeman Lloyd, 1840\" credit is a common mis-attribution to a different person); a public-domain four-part setting encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI via tools/mid2ly.py and read against the Cyber Hymnal engraving (E-flat major, 4/4, two-beat anacrusis). All components pre-1931. MELISMATIC: the per-stanza held-note underlay (11 held notes) is resolved from the engraving's printed soprano slurs.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Meirionydd\" (William Freeman Lloyd, 1840); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "music_ly": "%% MEIRIONYDD (7.6.7.6.D) \u2014 four SATB voice streams, canonical key E-flat major.\n%% Corpus harmonization source for the HymnBookGenerator close-score engine.\n%% RULES (CI-enforced): exactly the variables soprano/alto/tenor/bass/global;\n%% absolute octaves; each voice rhythmically complete; NO chords <>, NO <<>>,\n%% NO \\secondShift/\\unisonWholeShift/tightSpacing, NO \\break, NO \\bar, NO lyrics.\n%%\n%% Encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI (\"Meirionydd\") with tools/mid2ly.py.\n%% E-flat major (three flats), 4/4 with a two-beat anacrusis (\\partial 2 =\n%% bes'4. as'8); 16 full bars plus the pickup, each voice totals 66 quarter-beats.\n%% Final note es'1 (whole note). The tune is by William Lloyd (1786-1852) \u2014 the\n%% Cyber Hymnal engraving's \"William Freeman Lloyd, 1840\" credit is the common\n%% mis-attribution (a different person); 1840 is the first-publication date (as\n%% BERTH, in R. Mills's Caniadau Seion). See hymnary.org/tune/meirionydd_lloyd.\n%%\n%% MELISMATIC (verse_variable_melisma): 63 soprano notes for 52 syllables\n%% (7.6.7.6.D). The 11 held notes are the second note of each ornamental figure \u2014\n%% eight beamed eighth-pairs and three dotted-quarter+eighth openings \u2014 each\n%% carrying a soprano slur below. Slur ends (held notes): 2, 5, 14, 18, 21, 29,\n%% 44, 47, 50, 53, 61. The map was read from the Cyber Hymnal engraving's printed\n%% soprano slurs (PDF vector slur-crescent endpoints + 600 dpi visual read) and is\n%% over-determined by the 52-syllable text (each held note falls on a real word\n%% syllable). NOTE: the engraving prints one further soprano slur over m14's\n%% g'4 a'4 (notes 54-55) which is NOT a syllable melisma for a 52-syllable text and\n%% is therefore omitted here.\n\\version \"2.24.0\"\n\nglobal  = { \\key es \\major \\time 4/4 \\partial 2 }\n\nsoprano = {\n  bes'4.( as'8) |\n  g'4 g'8( f'8) es'4 f'4 | g'2 g'4 bes'4 | as'4 g'4 as'8( g'8) f'4 | es'2 bes'4.( as'8) |\n  g'4 g'8( f'8) es'4 f'4 | g'2. bes'4 | as'4 g'4 as'8( g'8) f'4 | es'2 bes'2 |\n  c''4 bes'4 c''4 d''4 | es''2 bes'4 g'4 | bes'4 c''4 bes'4 g'8( c'8) | f'2 g'4.( f'8) |\n  es'4 es'8( f'8) g'4 g'8( f'8) | g'4 a'4 bes'4 es'4 | g'4 bes'4 as'8( g'8) f'4 | es'1\n}\nalto = {\n  g'4. f'8 |\n  es'4 d'8 f'8 c'4 d'4 | es'2 es'4 es'4 | d'4 es'4 es'8 g'8 d'4 | es'2 f'4. as'8 |\n  es'4 d'8 f'8 c'4 d'4 | es'2. d'4 | es'4 es'4 f'8 es'8 d'4 | es'2 g'2 |\n  es'4 es'4 es'4 es'4 | es'2 f'4 es'4 | es'4 es'4 es'4 bes8 c'8 | d'2 d'4. f'8 |\n  c'4 es'8 f'8 d'4 es'8 f'8 | es'2 bes4 bes4 | es'4 es'4 es'8 g'8 d'4 | es'1\n}\ntenor = {\n  bes2 |\n  bes4 bes8 as8 g4 bes4 | bes2 bes4 bes4 | bes4 bes4 c'8 bes8 as4 | g2 bes2 |\n  bes4 bes8 as8 g4 bes4 | bes2. bes4 | c'4 bes4 c'4 f4 | g2 es'2 |\n  c'4 es'4 c'8 bes8 as4 | g4 a4 bes4 bes4 | bes4 as4 bes4 bes4 | bes2 g2 |\n  g4 as4 bes4 c'4 | bes8 bes8 es4 f4 g4 | c'4 bes4 c'4 f4 | g1\n}\nbass = {\n  es2 |\n  es4 bes,8 as8 c4 bes,4 | es2 es4 g4 | f4 es4 as,8 bes8 bes,4 | es2 d2 |\n  es4 bes,8 as8 c4 bes,4 | es2. g4 | c4 es4 as,4 bes,4 | es2 es2 |\n  as4 g4 as8 g8 f4 | c2 d4 es4 | g4 as4 g4 es4 | bes,2 b,2 |\n  c4 c4 bes,4 as,4 | es8 d8 c4 d4 es4 | c4 g,4 as,4 bes,4 | es1\n}\n"}, "harmonizations": [{"slug": "meirionydd-cyberhymnal", "tune": "meirionydd", "music_file": "meirionydd-cyberhymnal.ly", "harmonizer": null, "arrangement_type": "harmonization", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "es", "mode": "major"}, "time": "4/4", "pickup": "2", "system_breaks": [9, 16, 25, 32, 39, 47, 56], "final_barline": "|.", "amen": false, "verse_variable_melisma": true, "refrain": null, "source_line": "MEIRIONYDD, William Lloyd, 1840. Public domain.", "provenance": {"layer": "harmonization", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Tune MEIRIONYDD (7.6.7.6.D) by William Lloyd (1786-1852), first published 1840 as BERTH in R. Mills's Caniadau Seion (the Cyber Hymnal engraving's \"William Freeman Lloyd, 1840\" credit is a common mis-attribution to a different person); a public-domain four-part setting encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI via tools/mid2ly.py and read against the Cyber Hymnal engraving (E-flat major, 4/4, two-beat anacrusis). All components pre-1931. MELISMATIC: the per-stanza held-note underlay (11 held notes) is resolved from the engraving's printed soprano slurs.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Meirionydd\" (William Freeman Lloyd, 1840); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "music_ly": "%% MEIRIONYDD (7.6.7.6.D) \u2014 four SATB voice streams, canonical key E-flat major.\n%% Corpus harmonization source for the HymnBookGenerator close-score engine.\n%% RULES (CI-enforced): exactly the variables soprano/alto/tenor/bass/global;\n%% absolute octaves; each voice rhythmically complete; NO chords <>, NO <<>>,\n%% NO \\secondShift/\\unisonWholeShift/tightSpacing, NO \\break, NO \\bar, NO lyrics.\n%%\n%% Encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI (\"Meirionydd\") with tools/mid2ly.py.\n%% E-flat major (three flats), 4/4 with a two-beat anacrusis (\\partial 2 =\n%% bes'4. as'8); 16 full bars plus the pickup, each voice totals 66 quarter-beats.\n%% Final note es'1 (whole note). The tune is by William Lloyd (1786-1852) \u2014 the\n%% Cyber Hymnal engraving's \"William Freeman Lloyd, 1840\" credit is the common\n%% mis-attribution (a different person); 1840 is the first-publication date (as\n%% BERTH, in R. Mills's Caniadau Seion). See hymnary.org/tune/meirionydd_lloyd.\n%%\n%% MELISMATIC (verse_variable_melisma): 63 soprano notes for 52 syllables\n%% (7.6.7.6.D). The 11 held notes are the second note of each ornamental figure \u2014\n%% eight beamed eighth-pairs and three dotted-quarter+eighth openings \u2014 each\n%% carrying a soprano slur below. Slur ends (held notes): 2, 5, 14, 18, 21, 29,\n%% 44, 47, 50, 53, 61. The map was read from the Cyber Hymnal engraving's printed\n%% soprano slurs (PDF vector slur-crescent endpoints + 600 dpi visual read) and is\n%% over-determined by the 52-syllable text (each held note falls on a real word\n%% syllable). NOTE: the engraving prints one further soprano slur over m14's\n%% g'4 a'4 (notes 54-55) which is NOT a syllable melisma for a 52-syllable text and\n%% is therefore omitted here.\n\\version \"2.24.0\"\n\nglobal  = { \\key es \\major \\time 4/4 \\partial 2 }\n\nsoprano = {\n  bes'4.( as'8) |\n  g'4 g'8( f'8) es'4 f'4 | g'2 g'4 bes'4 | as'4 g'4 as'8( g'8) f'4 | es'2 bes'4.( as'8) |\n  g'4 g'8( f'8) es'4 f'4 | g'2. bes'4 | as'4 g'4 as'8( g'8) f'4 | es'2 bes'2 |\n  c''4 bes'4 c''4 d''4 | es''2 bes'4 g'4 | bes'4 c''4 bes'4 g'8( c'8) | f'2 g'4.( f'8) |\n  es'4 es'8( f'8) g'4 g'8( f'8) | g'4 a'4 bes'4 es'4 | g'4 bes'4 as'8( g'8) f'4 | es'1\n}\nalto = {\n  g'4. f'8 |\n  es'4 d'8 f'8 c'4 d'4 | es'2 es'4 es'4 | d'4 es'4 es'8 g'8 d'4 | es'2 f'4. as'8 |\n  es'4 d'8 f'8 c'4 d'4 | es'2. d'4 | es'4 es'4 f'8 es'8 d'4 | es'2 g'2 |\n  es'4 es'4 es'4 es'4 | es'2 f'4 es'4 | es'4 es'4 es'4 bes8 c'8 | d'2 d'4. f'8 |\n  c'4 es'8 f'8 d'4 es'8 f'8 | es'2 bes4 bes4 | es'4 es'4 es'8 g'8 d'4 | es'1\n}\ntenor = {\n  bes2 |\n  bes4 bes8 as8 g4 bes4 | bes2 bes4 bes4 | bes4 bes4 c'8 bes8 as4 | g2 bes2 |\n  bes4 bes8 as8 g4 bes4 | bes2. bes4 | c'4 bes4 c'4 f4 | g2 es'2 |\n  c'4 es'4 c'8 bes8 as4 | g4 a4 bes4 bes4 | bes4 as4 bes4 bes4 | bes2 g2 |\n  g4 as4 bes4 c'4 | bes8 bes8 es4 f4 g4 | c'4 bes4 c'4 f4 | g1\n}\nbass = {\n  es2 |\n  es4 bes,8 as8 c4 bes,4 | es2 es4 g4 | f4 es4 as,8 bes8 bes,4 | es2 d2 |\n  es4 bes,8 as8 c4 bes,4 | es2. g4 | c4 es4 as,4 bes,4 | es2 es2 |\n  as4 g4 as8 g8 f4 | c2 d4 es4 | g4 as4 g4 es4 | bes,2 b,2 |\n  c4 c4 bes,4 as,4 | es8 d8 c4 d4 es4 | c4 g,4 as,4 bes,4 | es1\n}\n", "preferred": true}], "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}