Submitted as a barndance.Transcribed from Yr Hwntws's eponymous record,the best album of Welsh folk music ever made.There are words to it,although the Kilbride Brothers play it as an instrumental.I'll leave it to ceolachan to explain about tribans.
Yup! ~ very good, you did learn something way back when...
Being fond of poetry, all sorts, this is one metre I'd like to spend more time with, getting to understand it enough to exercise it with sime justice. Those sheets put me off a bit, the pastel druids and all, but then I've some ugly memories of the KKK... I should be able to work past all that though, the petrol crosses burnt in people's lawns, the pomp, yeah, i can set those weird association and the politics aside, maybe in a sequence of tribannau with teeth like piranha... I've just never been comfortable with costume dramas. There was a book that tried to apply the concept of the Welsh Triban to English, as a kind of Welsh haiku...which it isn't, though it could exercise similar aims...
Oh yeah, the politics too ~ the old emblem / badge / brand for the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru is also called the 'Triban'... Now it is a stylized Welsh poppy...
Triban ~ triplet, a Welsh poetic metre, four lines, comparing three things... Like any short and defined structured limitation in writing ~ haiku, sonnet, Limerick, whatever ~ a great exercise and discipline... Mastery is always beyond the mechanics...
Triban ~ pronunciation, well the 'tri' in triple, triplet, tribble, followed by "ban" ~
Gwent ~ that's geographic, another placename, Southeast Wales ~ 'The Valleys'... ~ "G-went"
"The Encyclopaedia Britannica", 11th edition, New York, 1911
Sonnet ~ " ~ That the impulse to select for the rendering of single phases of feeling or reflection a certain recognized form is born of a natural and universal instinct is perhaps evidenced by the fact that, even when a metrical arrangement discloses no structural law demanding a prescriptive number and arrangement of verses, the poet will nevertheless, in certain moods, choose to restrict himself to a prescribed number and arrangement, as in the cases of the Italian stornello, the Welsh triban, and the beautiful rhymeless short ode of Japanese poetry. ~ " (the haiku?!)
Yeah, I know what they mean. I'm particularly fond of perscription pad poetry, like that of William Carlos Williams and the Imagists, and then there's all those wonderful short pieces by Emily Dickinson...
Submitted as a barndance.Transcribed from Yr Hwntws's eponymous record,the best album of Welsh folk music ever made.There are words to it,although the Kilbride Brothers play it as an instrumental.I'll leave it to ceolachan to explain about tribans.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by dafydd
Yes, a favourite recording... I'll be back...
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by ceolachan
Tribannau,is that the correct plural?
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by dafydd
The Triban & the discipline of limitations ~
Yup! ~ very good, you did learn something way back when...
Being fond of poetry, all sorts, this is one metre I'd like to spend more time with, getting to understand it enough to exercise it with sime justice. Those sheets put me off a bit, the pastel druids and all, but then I've some ugly memories of the KKK... I should be able to work past all that though, the petrol crosses burnt in people's lawns, the pomp, yeah, i can set those weird association and the politics aside, maybe in a sequence of tribannau with teeth like piranha... I've just never been comfortable with costume dramas. There was a book that tried to apply the concept of the Welsh Triban to English, as a kind of Welsh haiku...which it isn't, though it could exercise similar aims...
Oh yeah, the politics too ~ the old emblem / badge / brand for the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru is also called the 'Triban'... Now it is a stylized Welsh poppy...
http://www.plaidcymru.org/
Triban ~ triplet, a Welsh poetic metre, four lines, comparing three things... Like any short and defined structured limitation in writing ~ haiku, sonnet, Limerick, whatever ~ a great exercise and discipline... Mastery is always beyond the mechanics...
Triban ~ pronunciation, well the 'tri' in triple, triplet, tribble, followed by "ban" ~
Gwent ~ that's geographic, another placename, Southeast Wales ~ 'The Valleys'... ~ "G-went"
http://www.thisisgwent.co.uk/
http://www.monmouthshire.org.uk/
Tri-ban G-went
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
~ or ~ "A Gwent Triban"
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
"The Encyclopaedia Britannica", 11th edition, New York, 1911
Sonnet ~ " ~ That the impulse to select for the rendering of single phases of feeling or reflection a certain recognized form is born of a natural and universal instinct is perhaps evidenced by the fact that, even when a metrical arrangement discloses no structural law demanding a prescriptive number and arrangement of verses, the poet will nevertheless, in certain moods, choose to restrict himself to a prescribed number and arrangement, as in the cases of the Italian stornello, the Welsh triban, and the beautiful rhymeless short ode of Japanese poetry. ~ " (the haiku?!)
Yeah, I know what they mean. I'm particularly fond of perscription pad poetry, like that of William Carlos Williams and the Imagists, and then there's all those wonderful short pieces by Emily Dickinson...
The Complete Poems ~ Emily Dickinson
http://www.bartleby.com/113/
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by ceolachan