Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 16th 2006 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as Clover, Clover Of Meirionnydd, The Clover Of Meirionnydd, Clover Of Merioneth, The Clover Of Merioneth, Clover Of Merionethshire, The Clover Of Merionethshire, The Clover, Meillionen O Feirionnydd, Sir Watkin’s Delight.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Meillionen
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
|: D2 |
G4 B2 AG | FGAB c2 c2 | B4 cBAG | F3 G ABcA |
G2 d2 B2 AG | FGAB c2 dc | B2 cB A3 G | G6 :|
|: Bc |
d2 G2 F2 G2 | A4 A2 Bc | d4 cBAG | FGAB cAGF |
G3 A B2 c2 | dcBA B2 AG | c3 d e2 d2 | cdcB A2 Bc |
B4 cBAG | FGAB c2 dc | B4 A3 G | G6 :|
K: Dmaj
|: (3ABc |
d2 f2 gfed | cdef g2 fe | d2 f2 e2 d2 | cB (3Bcd e2 dc |
d3 f g>fed | cdef g2 ag | f2 gf e3 d | d4 d2 :|
|: (3efg |
a3 d c3 d | e6 fg | a3 g gfed | c>def gedc |
d2 de f2 fg | agfe f2 ed | g2 a2 b2 a2 | g>agf e2 (3efg |
f2 f2 gfed | cdef g4 | f2 gf e2 dc | d6 :|
"Meillionen"
I've given this in just two keys in the transcription, G & D, with a few variations and choices as well.
Some folks transcribe this in 2/4 and others pack the equivalent of two measures of dense 2/4 transcription into one measure of 4/4, making the A-part jsut 4 measures and the B-part 6... As it is a country danceand unhurried, I've opted to follow earlier transcriptions in 4/4...
"Meillionen" can and has been transcribed in several other keys, for example C and A Major. I have also found a peculiar twist on it in minor. In the early 20th century Hugh Mellor, who collected In Cymru / Wales did 'arrangements' as 'Welsh' melodies and dances, which included some tunes in odd keys like E (####), cut "Meillionen" down to 16 bars, without repeats and removing four measures from the B-part, because he saw this as more 'acceptable' of dance music in general...?
# Posted on November 16th 2006 by ceolachan
Also recorded by Ar Log too I believe.
# Posted on November 16th 2006 by dafydd
"Ar Log: Meillionen"
There is a bit on this album in the 'Comments' for "Ar Log VI"... I do have that album too, but not at hand or I would have added it to the recordings...despite it being my least favourite work of thiers...believing they 'sold their souls' to produce it...
# Posted on November 16th 2006 by ceolachan
Microsoft Word & the damned spellchecker ~ A & a
Apologies, the D Major take, B-part, first measure, the spell checker when I moved it from 'Notepad' to 'Word' in the later changed the start of that measure down an octabe, to a capital 'A'... Here is the correction as it now appears in the ABCs:
|: (3efg | a3 d c3 d | e6 ~
I would have caught it but was called away quickly for other work when I was contributing this...
# Posted on November 16th 2006 by ceolachan
"Meillionen"
Meillionen = clover, but more so, in the minds of the Welsh, the flower of the clover, which has both colour and scent...
Mei ~ 'may'
ll ~ touchy ground again, as I have made mistakes before, tip of the tongue against the hard palate, just behind the upper teeth, that ledge, and blow without using your vocal chords (='unvoiced')... We do it in stereo, which means air escapes out both 'sides' of the tongue, but I am told one can be right or left-tongued...
It is a shhhhhh sort of sound. If you need another way of thinking about it, it is an 'L' without the vocal chores, or ~ Lllllllllllllllllll ~ which sounds akin to hissing.
io ~ 'Yo!'
nen ~ 'nan'
# Posted on November 16th 2006 by ceolachan
Sorry Dafydd, I forgot to add the link to that comment on their "Meillionen" album:
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2250/Comments
# Posted on November 16th 2006 by ceolachan
"Meillionen" ~ just a precursor to 'history'
This tune and the country dance, under this spelling, 'Welsh', dates back to the 18th Century... I have several versions of it here in old dance tomes and will see if I can find something to add here for comparison, for the 'craic'... ( Damn! ~ I'm listening to this now and that missed note , the A, is jarring... Mea Culpa! )
# Posted on November 16th 2006 by ceolachan
Another nice tune - I've heard this one played in both Bangor and Llanidloes, and will doubtless be hearing more of it.
# Posted on November 17th 2006 by granama
Meillionen O Feirionnydd was the name I was given for it. Obviously, I didn't remember it - I just copied and pasted it from the alternate titles list.
# Posted on November 17th 2006 by granama
I chose the shortened title for a reason and placed that in the alternate list, for a reason ~
~ but also, it is the oldest recorded title I know for it...
# Posted on November 17th 2006 by ceolachan