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This is page 3 of a collection of 230 tunes. Types of tunes are the jig ,slip jig,slide,reel,slow air, pibroch, strathspey, highland fling, planxty, hornpipe, march, wedding march. If you are looking for books of tunes then any of the O'Neill books are a good start. However there is no substitute for listening . There are many ways to play a traditional tune, especially in the Irish style. Scottish style is more formalised due to the influence of competitions and classical music. Cape Breton style is closer to Scottish than Irish and the ornaments as used in Irish style are not used . Cape Breton fiddlers use vibrato which is avoided in Irish traditional music. Some of the ornaments (especially for Uilleann pipes) cannot be written down using conventional notation. The notes of an 'Irish Roll' are the same as the 'Turn' in classical music. The effect of the roll however is different, and sounds nothing like a turn. These ornaments can be difficult to learn, but are essential to the sound and must be mastered. The main ornaments are the ROLLS (various types) and the CRAN (piping) as well as many GRACENOTE types. The effect of these is sometimes the sound of notes being percussed by the previous note, which demands great accuracy to achieve the effect. As stated above, these ornaments cannot be musically notated using classical notation and must be learned from other players. So what you see written is often only a rough guide as to how it actually sounds and sometimes no guide at all! At first reading,the tunes look simple enough, but acquiring the skill to execute them in the traditional style is not so simple. You can replace a roll or cran in several ways. For example an A roll can be replaced with the three quaver notes A,B,A or A,A,A or whatever sounds good. Traditional Irish music was handed down orally for centuries and the attempt to collect and notate them is a fairly recent occurance(18th century). The Slow Airs generally are not in any strict time , that being up to the performer's discretion or mood at the time! |
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