Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 7 tunebooks.
Also known as Glamorgan Chalk, White Joak, The White Joak.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Gwyngalch Morgannwg
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:d2e fed|dcB AGF|B2B Bcd|
AFD DEF|GFG BAG|FGE D3:|
|:EEE ABc|def ecA|EEE ABc|
def edc|Bdd Add|Gdd Fdd|
BBB Bcd|AFD DEF|GFG BAG|FGE D3:|
Gwyngalch Morgannwg
Unusual structure - 6 bars in the first half, and 10 in the second. Still a total of 16, as is normal for most tunes.
I think gwyngalch means something like "white chalk" or "white limestone". Perhaps the intended meaning is "chalk face". Anyone with a better knowledge of Welsh than my smattering of the language like to comment on this tune title?
Trevor
# Posted on November 15th 2003 by lazyhound
Gwyngalch Mogannwg
"Gwyngalch Morgannwg" means "The White Limestone Of Glamorgan". I've come across this tune in a couple of collections of English tunes under the name of "The White Joak",but this is a better version.The 6 and 10 bar structure is fairly common in Welsh jigs . David Meredith
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Anyone care for a dance
I've just played this tune on my old joanna and like it. Needs playing very steadily. Does anyone know of a dance to go with this tune. Would very much like to pass it on to caller who would consider using it.
# Posted on April 27th 2004 by hetty
Gwyngalch Morgannwg (White Joak)
Pete Cooper, in his on-line notes* to the tune "white Joak" on his CD "Englsih Fiddle Tunes says,
"... it was published in 1731 by John Walsh, in his ‘Third Book of the most celebrated Jiggs, Lancashire Hornpipes, Scotch and Highland Lilts, Northern Frisks...' "
With that non-standard 6/10 bar arrangement it could have been written for a specific dance.
"Joak" at that time may have had a somewhat bawdy connotation.
* http://www.petecooper.com/eftnotes.htm#19
# Posted on April 25th 2007 by lazyhound
"Gwyngalch Morgannwg" ~ Glamorgan White Chalk, etc...
Gwyn = white ~
goo - win, on syllable, gwin
calch = lime, chalk (limestone more usually being 'calchen')
'c' mutated to 'g'
gahl - ch, the 'ch' being as in Bach, a growl at the back of the throat
Morgannwg ~ the county, Glamorgan / Glamorganshire
more - gan - noog
# Posted on June 22nd 2008 by ceolachan
goo - win, one syllable, gwin (the 'e' on the one didn't register)
# Posted on June 22nd 2008 by ceolachan