>Grace notes *before* the
>beat seem more typical of traditional music -- as in Irish music.
Oops, what I meant was the regular one-note or two-note grace notes. I
wasn't thinking of Irish rolls, which to my mind function like birls/cuts
in that they replace a long note (or couple of notes). BT
>The only reference I have found to
>ornaments in Scottish music being played before the beat is in Alastair
>Hardie's 'The Caledonian Companion' Is it the tradition
>within the Scots fiddling world to play ornaments before the beat? It seems
>a very classical music type of approach, to me.
I
Rob MacKillop wrote:
>
> Someone mentioned that the birl is played on the beat, which is what I would
> expect, although I am not a fiddler. The only reference I have found to
> ornaments in Scottish music being played before the beat is in Alastair
> Hardie's 'The Caledonian Companion'. He publi
Someone mentioned that the birl is played on the beat, which is what I would
expect, although I am not a fiddler. The only reference I have found to
ornaments in Scottish music being played before the beat is in Alastair
Hardie's 'The Caledonian Companion'. He published my traditional guitar
book,
