Historic documents · File A·01·c

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Volumes on Google Books in which William ApMadoc is named, gathered by searching every spelling and keeping the results that concern his musical life. Scores and sheet music are not listed here — those are with his sheet music.

Online Books

30 volumes · 1879–2019
  • His own writing
  • 1899The Cambrian, vol. 19 Google Books His column “Musical Notes, by William Apmadoc, Chicago” — page 405.
  • 1901The Cambrian, vol. 21 Google Books “Music Notes. By William Ap Madoc, Chicago” — page 549.
  • 1914Music News, vol. 6, no. 2 Google Books The fourth article in a series under his own byline, on the growth of Welsh music — page 14.
  • Who he was
  • 1915The Musical Blue Book of America Google Books His entry: tenor, teacher of singing at the Chicago Conservatory, composer, precentor of All Souls Church and music editor — page 54.
  • 1904American Musical Club Directory Google Books Listed at 4905 Washington Park Court, Chicago — page 80.
  • 1901All Souls Church Annual Google Books Named as precentor of the church, with Kathryn Williams as organist — page 81.
  • 1896Res Gestae Google Books A college register describing his son Tudor, noting “his father is a music teacher.”
  • Eisteddfod work
  • 1879Orchestra and the Choir, vol. 5 Google Books An early notice of “Apmadoc, a bard from the United States,” at a penillion competition — page 78.
  • 1892Eisteddfod gydgenedlaethol, Ffair y byd Google Books The World’s Columbian Exposition eisteddfod programme, listing him alongside the committee on music — page 7.
  • 1892The Chautauquan, vol. 15 Google Books “Ap Madoc of Chicago is secretary” of the body that wrote to the national eisteddfod of Wales — page 573.
  • 1895History of the Welsh in Minnesota Google Books Records that Ap Madoc adjudicated the singing at the Blue Earth eisteddfod — page 108.
  • 1898Watson’s Weekly Art Journal Google Books He was chosen from twenty-two applicants to conduct the Pan-Celtic Eisteddfod at Cardiff — page 32.
  • 1902Musical Record and Review Google Books Named among the adjudicators for the choral contests — page 10.
  • 1908Musical America, vol. 8 Google Books The Welsh competitive choir singing held in the Salt Lake City Tabernacle — page 6.
  • 1915Unity, vol. 76 Google Books He explains the Gorsedd — the council of bards, and the preservation of the old language — page 56.
  • 1921The Story of the Exposition Google Books He officiated as platform organizer at the Panama-Pacific eisteddfod — page 102.
  • Performances and notices
  • 1884Report of the Board of Visitors, Utica Google Books A concert given at the state hospital — page 74.
  • 1900Music: A Monthly Magazine Google Books A sardonic paragraph on eisteddfodau with “W. M. Apmadoc well along towards the head thereof” — page 206.
  • 1901Unity, vols. 47–48 Google Books A recital he gave as vocalist and lecturer, on the beauty of the old Welsh melodies — page 206.
  • 1911The Musical Times Google Books Bethany, to his book, produced at the Gloucester Musical Festival of 1910 — page 62.
  • 1916Forest Leaves, vol. 10 Google Books A choir performance of Bethany — page 13.
  • Catalogues and reference
  • 1894British Museum Catalogue of Music Google Books O Delyn fy Ngwlad (“O Harp of My Land”), song and chorus, words by W. Apmadoc — page 2996.
  • 1909Catalog of Copyright Entries Google Books A copyright renewal entered by William Apmadoc of Utica, N.Y., as author — page 1104.
  • 1916The Royal Blue Book (Pittsburgh Eisteddfod) Google Books Names Protheroe and “Professor William ApMadoc” as the Welsh contributors to American musical development — page 200.
  • 1986American Oratorios and Cantatas: A Catalog Google Books The modern catalogue entry for a cantata with text by William ApMadoc — page 903.
  • Later scholarship
  • 1994Welsh History Review, vol. 17 Google Books On the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair eisteddfod and “its disillusioned organizer, William Ap Madoc” — page 284.
  • 1997Wales in America: Scranton and the Welsh Google Books Gives his dates as 1844–1916 and his work conducting an eisteddfod choir — page 163.
  • 2011Exhibiting Mormonism Google Books His reading of a report on the Mormon leadership, in an eisteddfod context — page 115.
  • 2017Music of Motherhood Google Books Describes him as a key figure in the eisteddfod run by the National Cymmrodorion Society.
  • 2019The Cat Men of Gotham Google Books “William ApMadoc, the journal’s music critic” — an anecdote he told about a minister — page 92.

About these links

Each link opens the volume on Google Books with the search term already applied, so the mention is highlighted rather than leaving you on the first page. How much of a volume can be read varies — some are full view, some snippet only, and Google changes this from time to time.

The name is spelled ApMadoc, Apmadoc and Ap Madoc across these sources, and all three were searched. Results about W. Tudor ApMadoc Sr. — the lawyer and legislator — have been left out, as have the medieval Welsh “ap Madoc” patronymics, which are a different family altogether.