The bardic museum, of primitive British literature and other admirable rarities : forming the second volume of the musical, poetical, and historical relicks of the Welsh bards and druids ... : containing, the bardic triads, historic odes, eulogies, songs, elegies, memorials of the tombs of the warriors, of King Arthur and his knights, regalias, the wonders of Wales, et caetera : with English translations and historic illustrations : likewise, the ancient war-tunes of the bards ... : to these national melodies are added new basses, with variations, for the harp, or harpsichord, violin or flute ...

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The bardic museum, of primitive British literature and other admirable rarities : forming the second volume of the musical, poetical, and historical relicks of the Welsh bards and druids ... : containing, the bardic triads, historic odes, eulogies, songs, elegies, memorials of the tombs of the warriors, of King Arthur and his knights, regalias, the wonders of Wales, et caetera : with English translations and historic illustrations : likewise, the ancient war-tunes of the bards ... : to these national melodies are added new basses, with variations, for the harp, or harpsichord, violin or flute ...

by Edward Jones, bard to the Prince

Printed by A. Strahan, 1802

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"Jones had prepared a third volume, a portion only of which was published at his death, the remainder being issued subsequently."--Grove, Dict. of music

Hand-colored etched frontispiece by Rowlandson, after a design by Ibbetson and J. Smith

Pages 61-112 consist of engraved music

Some poems are given in Welsh or Latin, with parallel English translation

Includes bibliographical references and index

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