Great thought on the strathspey "tripling". Sandy Jones taught me these as "taragans" - rhythmically the same as other tripling movements, and also related to the tachum in idiomatic parlance.
Yes, traditionally, this movement is called tarahum composed of ta-ra ( doubling) and hum (low note) then ta-ra-hum When compressed the sound become tra-hum, the famous C doubling to low A, and B doubling to low G, so frequent in strathspeys tunes These three G-D-E gracenotes are tremendously important to build your different shapes of triplings, whatever the type of melody
Great thought on the strathspey "tripling". Sandy Jones taught me these as "taragans" - rhythmically the same as other tripling movements, and also related to the tachum in idiomatic parlance.
Yes, traditionally, this movement is called tarahum
composed of ta-ra ( doubling) and hum (low note) then ta-ra-hum
When compressed the sound become tra-hum, the famous C doubling to low A, and B doubling to low G, so frequent in strathspeys tunes
These three G-D-E gracenotes are tremendously important to build your different shapes of triplings, whatever the type of melody
Thank you! I've never heard of the "taragan" or "tarahum". But they make sense from a canntaireachd point of view since they have three syllables.
Never thought of that note formation in those terms … changing my perspective as I look at my strathspey
Great! They certainly are GDE triplets. Glad it helps to think about it that way. Sometimes a change of perspective is all that it takes.