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Gwledd O Gan / A Feast Of Song
Duvnant Male Voice Choir
Album artwork for Duvnant Male Voice Choir, provided through the SAIN Records collection on Wikimedia Commons.
Inside the image.
A square illustrated cover is enclosed by an elaborate, roughly symmetrical floral frame. A broad brown and olive-green border forms a rounded arch around a blue central scene, then curves down into a white title panel at the bottom. Yellow flowers with dark centres, narrow leaves and curling stems cluster along both sides and across the upper corners; smaller flowers and foliage continue around the lower edges. Dark brown branches and green leaves outline the frame, with a few rounded brown forms near the top. The drawing has fine dark outlines and a slightly uneven, hand-rendered appearance.
Inside the frame, a softly graded blue sky fills most of the upper half, fading towards a distant low horizon. At the right, two tall industrial structures rise above a dark, irregular strip of land: one is a skeletal, scaffold-like tower, and the other has a bulky upper section with a narrow support below. A small green-and-yellow patch of ground slopes down from them towards the centre. In the foreground, a musical stave crosses from the left towards the middle, with a large treble clef, several notes and small flat signs. Beneath it, a small shield-shaped emblem sits near the centre, surrounded by dark, irregular marks that may be foliage or other tiny decorative details.
The lower third is a pale, mostly white panel, enclosed by the continuation of the brown frame. It carries the main title in large black, flowing calligraphic lettering on two lines. Above, white uppercase serif lettering is centred against the blue sky in two lines. The blue, yellow, olive green, brown and white areas are strongly separated, while subtle shading in the sky and landscape gives the otherwise flat, outlined illustration a little depth. No photographic elements are apparent.
What the image evokes.
The frame gives the cover the feel of a decorated sign or an old storybook plate: flowers and curling leaves turn the border into part of the scene, as though the landscape were being presented through a carved garden arch. The blue sky and distant industrial silhouettes suggest an open, worked landscape, while the foreground stave makes music seem to stretch across it like a visible path.
There is a pleasing tension between the orderly notes and the tough, angular structures behind them. The flowers soften the machinery without hiding it, and the calligraphic title lends the lower panel a more intimate, ornamental quality than the stark towers above. The result can read at once as celebratory and rooted in place: a formal floral tribute set against a landscape marked by human labour. Its hand-drawn outlines and restrained palette also recall illustrated programmes, commemorative plaques, or folk-art decorations, though these are associations rather than evidence of a specific source.
Associations are subjective readings, rather than documented influences or statements of the artist’s intention.
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Lettering & observation notes
- CÔR MEIBION DYFNANT — Upper centre, first line in white uppercase lettering
- DUNVANT MALE CHOIR — Upper centre, second line in white uppercase lettering
- Gwledd o Gân — Lower centre, first line of the black calligraphic title
- A Feast of Song — Lower centre, second line of the black calligraphic title
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- Source year
- 1999
- Source author field
- Sain (Records) Ltd
- Attribution
- Sain (Recordiau) Cyf.
- Collection
- SAIN / Wikimedia Commons
- Catalogue number
- SAIN SCD 7013
- Permission evidence
- Public VRT notice: 2017050910011681
- Source checked
- 20 October 2026
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