Medieval Music Mashup: A celebration of Robert ap Huws manuscript in modern times

Projects participants recording and performing new musical works

Young Roots

Dyddiad a ddyfarnwyd
Lleoliad
Bodowyr
Awdurdod Lleol
Isle of Anglesey
Ceisydd
Community Music Wales
Rhoddir y wobr
£21700
Young people learned about ancient Welsh music and were taught how to use modern digital devices to create their own new compositions.

Robert ap Huw's manuscript is considered one of the most important sources of early Welsh music. It is the main source of cerdd dant (string music), the art of vocal improvisation over a given melody. This Welsh musical tradition remains an important competition in today’s modern Eisteddfodau.

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the manuscript, young people explored Wales’ music heritage and brought the manuscript into the modern age by creating new works in response to it.

The new compositions were showcased in a live public performance, and recorded for publication on the project website, which promoted the new works, and Robert ap Huw's historical manuscript, to a wider audience.