On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:26:09PM +0200, Bert Van Vreckem wrote: > Bernard Hill wrote: > >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. > > It means "play any ornamentation here". The exact meaning is unspecified.
I rather like ~ - "play a squiggle". -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
