It evidently does, and has done, and surely will do - compare tunes which appeared in Atkinson, Dixon, Vickers and Peacock - or in the 19th century, the sudden popularity of polkas and galops, and the boom in 4/4 hornpipes with respect to 3/2 ones. Or the invention of keyed smallpipes. Ned Pearson's recordings in the middle of the 20th century sounded old-fashioned compared to the others from younger musicians Peter Kennedy and others recorded.
The important thing is not that The Tradition should never change, but that it should stay alive - if you want to stop it developing, get rid of all the musicians, and just listen to the records! John ________________________________________ From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] on behalf of Steve Bliven [steve.bli...@comcast.net] Sent: 01 July 2011 23:52 To: Francis Wood Cc: List - NSP Subject: [NSP] Re: Your Video Does this begin again the question of whether The Tradition can/should (choose one) evolve? Best wishes. Steve On 7/1/11 5:00 PM, "Francis Wood" <oatenp...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Interesting to contemplate how The Tradition will have evolved by then! To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
