I am taking lessons from a new tutor and he was showing me various ornaments that I can use on Sean Bui. He had one that I really liked the sound of. But it will take me a while to perform it correctly. It is g f# A d. All played very quickly. He said that its an ornament that Brian McNamara uses a lot. But He did not know what it was called.
Is it kind of a backstitch? ( not really sure what a backstitch is either) Or is it something else. Or is it that not all ornaments have names?
Just to give it a name I’d call it a quadruplet.
Mark
Bob, if you can be a little more specific in your description it would help. In ABC notation lower case means upper octave, so the way you wrote it is a little unclear.
Is there a bottom D between each of those pitches?
Where in the tune do you use it?
I think you might be talking about Ennis’ “instant crann” which you could think of as a A.G.F#.A tight backstitch played off the knee, if that makes sense. To learn it you need to master the tight backstitch first, or it will sound like shight. Not a movement you can learn in a month.
i think this may be similar to the tight bits often played in the 4th part of ‘the maid at the spinning wheel’ - i think the triple consists of 2nd octave g then f sharp and the final note can be back d, lower octave b or a
While I am not sure what ornament you’re getting at, I can, although it would not be my treatment of choice, image you take the dfd ecA dcB A in the second part of Seán Buí (3gfA d ecA dcB A
In that case I’d call it a plain gfA triplet, depending on your timing of it: if you pull the d in you can end up with a quadruplet of sorts, a four over three.
A back stitch like take on the same spot in that tune would be more along the lines of d (3GFd or d (3gfd ecA dcB A