>'Detached' is not an equivalent, though. I'll play a slow air, >or everything else for that manner with 'detached fingering' >because that's how a stopped chanter works. And it's not the >opposite of 'legato'! I take 'detached fingering' to mean >only that and nothing more. Only one finger off at any time, >with either an infinitesimal or a more pronounced gap between >notes. Once it is more noticeable, then it's staccato. >'Meggy's Foot' to take an extreme example and 'Lads of >Alnwick' less so. 'Rothbury Hills' or whatever, hardly at all.
With this interpretation, "detached" in the case of Rothbury Hills is getting very close to the "détaché" of the classical string player. What would you say was the opposite of "legato". >I take 'detached fingering' to mean >only that and nothing more. Only one finger off at any time. In other words you don't have to overdo it to "prove" that you're piping properly? Would you make the odd exception for vibrato and the occasional mordent, acciaccatura or "cut" (in the UP sense) and such like? C To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
