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No not ignorance at all. In fact you are quite astute. Welsh music was very much influenced by the Methodists which is also one of the differences it has with Irish and Scottish music and why there are so many choirs. It has it's good and not so good influence as with the rise of the Methodist Church in Wales music was suppressed.Originally Posted by Ruggery
For many years, Welsh folk music had been suppressed, due to the effects of the Act of Union, which promoted the English language,[5] and the rise of the Methodist church in the 18th and 19th century. The church frowned on traditional music and dance, though folk tunes were sometimes used in hymns. Since at least the 12th century, Welsh bards and musicians have participated in musical and poetic contests called eisteddfodau; this is the equivalent of the Scottish Mod and the Irish Fleadh Cheoil.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_WalesWelsh traditional music declined with the rise of Nonconformist religion in the 18th century, which emphasized choral singing over instruments, and religious over secular uses of music; traditional musical styles became associated with drunkenness and immorality. The development of hymn singing in Wales is closely tied with the Welsh Methodist revival of the late 18th century.
https://www.wales.com/about/culture/...lsh-folk-music"But in Wales the music is different, and I think it’s because in Scotland and Ireland they carried on playing their music across the 19th and 20th centuries, so it carried on being developed. When the Methodists moved into Wales in the 19th century, people stopped playing traditional music. So the music has been preserved in an earlier form.”
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