I guess I heard this ornament on some recordings and started doing it on the whistle a while ago, but I don't know what it's called and for some reason I can't find mention of it anywhere. All it is is that when you're about to go down by a note (or more than one, but same thing), e.g. from e to d, instead of just putting the d finger down, you put it down for a very short amount of time, lift it for a very short amount of time, and finally put it down for the note. Like a tap/strike, but then you put the tap finger down again as fast as possible after you pick it up from the tap.
In case that wasn't clear,
e.g. |BAG FGA| becomes |BAG <FG>FGA|, where the notes in the angle brackets are each only as long as a cut/tap note.
Also, what would it be called on a fiddle? It doesn't sound exactly the same, but you do the same thing with your finger at the beginning of a note.
Most likely it is the piper's doubling {on F#}
You can check out this page; http://www.uilleannobsession.com/faq.html
There is a link to a PDF;
# Tadhg Crowley Uilleann Pipes Tutor 39MB & Scale Chart
2.7MB - [Thanks to Dave Collins of the SCUPC for this]
It's just a short trill, containing only one upper gracenote, if I understand the OP rightly.
From The New College Encyclopedia of Music:
"Mordent, Upper, or Inverted:
common English term for the ornament introduced about 1750 by CPE Bach and called Scneller until c1800, and Pralltriller since. "
The musical example given is exactly what you describe.
As for what Uilleann pipers call them, Leo Rowsome (who knew a thing or two about the pipes) called this ornament an Upper Mordent in his Tutor.
The transcriptions of Willie Clancy's playing given in The Dance Music of Willie Clancy are full of these mordents/pralltrillers, but the lenghy article about Willie's ornamentation (which goes on for pages about Willie's rolls) does not mention them.
Learn to Play the Uilleann PIpes With the Armagh Pipers Club does not seem to mention this ornament or include it in the transcriptions contained therein.
Dennis Brooks' exhaustive The Tutor- Irish Union Pipes calls this ornament the "half shake" as opposed to the "shake or quiver" which is a trill containing two upper gracenotes.
None of the books I have call it a "doubling" but evidently Crowley called it that, if the posts above are correct.
Name of this ornament?
Name of this ornament?
I guess I heard this ornament on some recordings and started doing it on the whistle a while ago, but I don't know what it's called and for some reason I can't find mention of it anywhere. All it is is that when you're about to go down by a note (or more than one, but same thing), e.g. from e to d, instead of just putting the d finger down, you put it down for a very short amount of time, lift it for a very short amount of time, and finally put it down for the note. Like a tap/strike, but then you put the tap finger down again as fast as possible after you pick it up from the tap.
In case that wasn't clear,
e.g. |BAG FGA| becomes |BAG <FG>FGA|, where the notes in the angle brackets are each only as long as a cut/tap note.
Also, what would it be called on a fiddle? It doesn't sound exactly the same, but you do the same thing with your finger at the beginning of a note.
# Posted on December 4th 2008 by Whiddler
Re: Name of this ornament?
Bounce
# Posted on December 4th 2008 by Tirno
Re: Name of this ornament?
Something between a cut and a trill?
.. or maybe a whiddle?
# Posted on December 5th 2008 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Name of this ornament?
A doubling? Birl?
# Posted on December 5th 2008 by gam
Re: Name of this ornament?
Uilleann pipers call it doubling.
# Posted on December 5th 2008 by DrSilverSpear
Re: Name of this ornament?
Is it a mordent? Hard to decipher yor description....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordent
# Posted on December 5th 2008 by Henk Bos
Re: Name of this ornament?
Most likely it is the piper's doubling {on F#}
You can check out this page;
http://www.uilleannobsession.com/faq.html
There is a link to a PDF;
# Tadhg Crowley Uilleann Pipes Tutor 39MB & Scale Chart
2.7MB - [Thanks to Dave Collins of the SCUPC for this]
http://www.uilleannobsession.com/docs/Crowley_Tutor.pdf
doublings are described on pg. 11 & 12.
# Posted on December 5th 2008 by Ben Steen
Re: Name of this ornament?
It's just a short trill, containing only one upper gracenote, if I understand the OP rightly.
From The New College Encyclopedia of Music:
"Mordent, Upper, or Inverted:
common English term for the ornament introduced about 1750 by CPE Bach and called Scneller until c1800, and Pralltriller since. "
The musical example given is exactly what you describe.
As for what Uilleann pipers call them, Leo Rowsome (who knew a thing or two about the pipes) called this ornament an Upper Mordent in his Tutor.
The transcriptions of Willie Clancy's playing given in The Dance Music of Willie Clancy are full of these mordents/pralltrillers, but the lenghy article about Willie's ornamentation (which goes on for pages about Willie's rolls) does not mention them.
Learn to Play the Uilleann PIpes With the Armagh Pipers Club does not seem to mention this ornament or include it in the transcriptions contained therein.
Dennis Brooks' exhaustive The Tutor- Irish Union Pipes calls this ornament the "half shake" as opposed to the "shake or quiver" which is a trill containing two upper gracenotes.
None of the books I have call it a "doubling" but evidently Crowley called it that, if the posts above are correct.
# Posted on December 11th 2008 by Richard D Cook