NOTE: An MP3 file, using Kontakt sounds, is available online at this site for listening.

Presuming to improve on the effort of any other composer is risky and, in my opinion, unethical. Hence this effort at providing an alternative tune to Sir Arthur Sullivan's joyful, buoyant setting of the same text is not meant to be one of improvement.

The present tune was originally a part-writing project during my freshman year in college. Over the succeeding years, I toyed with a number of titles for it... (more)

NOTE: An MP3 file, using Kontakt sounds, is available online at this site for listening.

Presuming to improve on the effort of any other composer is risky and, in my opinion, unethical. Hence this effort at providing an alternative tune to Sir Arthur Sullivan's joyful, buoyant setting of the same text is not meant to be one of improvement.

The present tune was originally a part-writing project during my freshman year in college. Over the succeeding years, I toyed with a number of titles for it and finally settled on "Sain Ffagan" in 1972, following my extensive stay in the lovely and charming Cardiff (UK) suburb by that name in 1972. On more than one occasion, the beauty of the town and the graciousness of its people, especially the staff at the Welsh Folk Museum, where I was conducting M.Mus thesis research on the crwth, brought the strains of the tune back to my mind. In 1978, I copyrighted the tune, with several other works, in a set titled _Lenten and Easter Miscellany_.

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