Welsh, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Finnish, and Armenian music
is apt to be pitched in plaintive, mournful, minor keys.
A Welsh preacher explained to an English congregation why
Welsh tunes were thus habitually pathetic. It is because for
centuries liberties were lost under Saxon domination. So, in
Russia, visitors were imprest by the tender and melancholy tho
beautiful strains of the national melodies. People when opprest
sing sadly; but liberty and joy emancipate even the music of a
nation. (Text.)
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