On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Steve Wyrick wrote: > This reminds me of another probably dumb question I have: Is a snap > considered an optional ornament? What I mean is, can you substitute it for > 2 eighths or for a dotted 8th-16 combination for effect, or is it only > played when written?
This reminds me of an earlier post, which gave an abc of Tony Cuffe's tune, Wendel's Wedding. By the way, I'm very glad to have that, and grateful for that post. Anyway, I noticed that in the first part of the tune, most of the "pairs" of notes were weighted, either long-short or short-long, while in the first line of the B-part, there were few if any weightings in the pairs. I assumed that was intended, and have got used to playing it that way. Now I wonder whether some freedom of interpretation would be intended here. I've heard the tune on the radio, but so long ago that I can't remember that kind of detail. Any information welcome, Peter McClure Winnipeg, MB Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
