In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bert Van Vreckem
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Bernard 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.


Bernard Hill
Braeburn Software
Author of Music Publisher system
Music Software written by musicians for musicians
http://www.braeburn.co.uk
Selkirk, Scotland

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