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from Edward Bunting, Ancient Music of Ireland (Dublin 1840)
Irish sruth beag spoken by Gráinne Yeats Scottish Gaelic sruth beag spoken by Tony Dilworth Click the play button to hear it spoken. help "By thumb, first, second, and third fingers of the left hand." Click on the picture to watch the video. help Video of Bill Taylor from our online lesson Exercise on sruth beag. Note that although Sruth beag is listed under "Graces performed by the treble or left hand", Bill is playing it with his right hand in the video. It is notable that the footnote for sruth beag indicates which fingers on the left hand should be used to sound the four notes, but do not mention which fingers are used for stopping, if any. Bill's video shows one possible solution; others include stopping each string seperately as the figure progresses, not stopping any strings at all, or sliding the fingers up one position to damp their neighbouring strings. Simon Chadwick 2008 Sruth beag - Little stream Correct. Colm Ó Baoill 2002
Click the play button to hear it spoken. help
"By thumb, first, second, and third fingers of the left hand."
Click on the picture to watch the video. help
Video of Bill Taylor from our online lesson Exercise on sruth beag.
Note that although Sruth beag is listed under "Graces performed by the treble or left hand", Bill is playing it with his right hand in the video.
It is notable that the footnote for sruth beag indicates which fingers on the left hand should be used to sound the four notes, but do not mention which fingers are used for stopping, if any. Bill's video shows one possible solution; others include stopping each string seperately as the figure progresses, not stopping any strings at all, or sliding the fingers up one position to damp their neighbouring strings.
Simon Chadwick 2008
Sruth beag - Little stream
Correct.
Colm Ó Baoill 2002
