Peter wrote:
> 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,
sorry Peter, I missed this till now.
I posted the tune so feel obliged to respond...
I transcribed the tune from memory, and that's how I'd heard it played.
Using strong 'pointing' (dotted notes) for some phrases, and rounding out
others is used a lot by traditional players to give variety. Try playing
Wendel's Wedding in that dotted way right through and you'll see.
Personal interpretation is a big part of that, but depends a lot on whether
you're playing with others, which restricts your scope.
I tend to add pointing to phrases in reels where it won't usually be
written. Making some notes small helps emphasise the note before or after if
you want to give it more attack.
How you do it is largely a matter of personal style.
Derek
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