In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bert Van Vreckem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writesBernard Hill wrote:
2. What's a "roll" (+roll+ in the decorations)? I've checked 6 music dictionaries and books on notation and the only rolls mentioned are for timpani or other percussion and notated as either "tr" or a tremolo.
It is used at least in Irish music as a general ornamentation mark. I've come across the notation a.o. in "Traditional Irish Music: Karen Tweed's Irish Choice," Dave Mallinson Publications, 1994.
Thanks. But what does it mean? What would say an autoharp make of it, say perhaps to make it a tremolo.
It means "play any ornamentation here". The exact meaning is unspecified.
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