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⁴ Literally, a singing meeting – a hymn-singing festival that became popular in Welsh-speaking nonconformist chapels during the nineteenth century and continues to feature in Welsh-language culture, not just in Wales but also in expatriate Welsh communities.

⁵ Quoted from a review by Nicholas Temperley in the November 2012 Newsletter of the North American British Music Studies Association, p. 14.