The beautiful Welsh hymn tune Crugybar has been arranged by Kenneth Downie as a cornet solo with brass band accompaniment. The dedicatee Martyn Bryant has recently featured the solo with The International Staff Band of The Salvation Army.
This is one hymn tune that everybody knows! Invariably sung to the words, 'Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah', the strong Welsh melody is given a dramatic treatment to match the passion and fervour of William Williams' words.
Categories: Hymn Tunes, SALVATIONIST MUSIC Composer: Barrie Gott
This up-beat arrangement of the well-loved children's hymn is a favourite of all bands who have played it. Aspiring kit drummers will enjoy the 8 bar drum break.
(features Flugel Horn or Tenor Horn ) Duration 2.58
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Several items were written for the 1976 tour to America by the Cory Band and the Grimethorpe Band. The trip was part of American celebrations marking the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence. The tour was significantly backed financially by the American mining unions; hence the pairing of Britain’s finest mining bands.
American Dream, David of the White Rock, Hunt the Hare and Greensleeves were all generated for this tour.
Although David of the White Rock was originally conceived as a flugel horn solo Owen Farr’s treatment of it here more than convinces the listener that it is also very welt suited to tenor horn.
This is an ancient Welsh air that was first published in Relics of the Welsh Bards in 1794. Dafydd (David) Owain was a famous Welsh bard who lived on a farm called Gareg Wen (The White Rock) in Eifionydd, Carnarnvonshire, North Wales. Tradition has it that on his deathbed he called for his harp and composed this lovely melody, requesting that it be played at his funeral. Accordingly, it was later played at the parish church of Ynys-Cynhaiarn. Lyrics were later added by Ceiriog Hughes, which describe the melody's inspiration.
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