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Arfon (hymn tune)

Type of traditional Welsh hymn

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Overview

Arfon is a traditional Welsh hymn tune which exists with major and minor variants.

General information

The hymn tune Arfon originates as a Welsh folk tune of six lines (with the second couplet a duplicate of the first being omitted), but it was adapted into a French hymn tune as the eight-line tune known today. In its minor form, it is the tune for the Passiontide hymn Man of sorrows, wrapt in grief by Matthew Bridges.

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