Wow, that sheet music just goes to show how inaccurately ITM is usually transcribed!
Played literally, that is, evenly timed triplets all played stacatto, it would not sound remotely like a piece of Irish music.
In the first bar one would play ordinary “long rolls” on G
Bottom D G cut G pat G, A G cut G pat G
And bar 3 is similar with long rolls on F#.
The “turns” on high G in the 2nd part would again be ordinary long rolls on G played just as the long rolls in the first bar of the first part.
And I don’t think any Irish player would just play a plain G quarternote in bar 2 of the 2nd part, or plain F# quarternotes in bar 3 of the 2nd part.
It’s an unwritten “rule” that any note longer than an eighthnote has to be dealt with somehow, either by taking a breath after it, or by breaking it into two eighthnotes with a short roll, or by bending up to it, or something.
How the heck does one post ordinary notation here? It would be a lot cleared if I could do that…
Pancelticpiper, here’s how I mostly put dots up on here when necessary - looks more complicated written up than is to do:
Method 1) Scan a piece of pre-existing printed or handwritten notation, or even photograph it with mobile phone camera. Get image onto 'puter. Edit that image in Microsoft Picture Manager (or whatever picture editing software you use) to crop away unwanted parts, borders etc. and also resize it to about 650 pixels wide (to avoid bumping the C&F page width) and convert/compress to jpg format if not already in that (I use MPM’s “for documents” compression setting). Upload that image file to your usual web picture file host and post the resulting url as an [img] inclusion in your post.
Method 2) Generate a piece of notation in an ABC program (I use ABCEdit because it is the clearest/easiest/most versatile ABC software IMO for producing dots to print or use like this) or whatever notation software you use (I presume things like Sibelius and Finale etc. offer image files for scores produced in them). Use the “copy music/score/notation to clipboard” function (in the drop down menu for ABCEdit). Paste the image (ABCEdit produces BMP images at fairly large file sizes) into Microsoft Picture Manager and edit it (crop, resize, compress as above) into jpg format and save that version, appropriately titled (I usually discard the original BMP to save storage space - you can always generate it again from ABCEdit). Upload to online file host and post link on C&F in usual way.
I wouldn’t transcribe the tune with triplets either, but the two statements quoted above are far too sweeping. Plenty of good Irish players I listen are quite happy to play plain quarternotes, and very refreshing it is to hear them.