Has it occurred to anyone that once a tradition has started to get self
conscious about it's identity, it's got problems? A tradition that is
still fully living as a tradition, is just 'how things are', without
needing to ask itself what is traditional and what isn't. It even
decides what it
For heaven's sake, don't let us get back to all the back-biting and
bitching of the previous messages - making unjustified allusions to
people, without mentioning names etc. If classical music had remained
in the tradition Mozart would have been shot, Beethoven would never
have dared to
One thing that might be worth considering in the context of the debate
here over the past few days is that in at least one another tradition,
the way a dance-based genre was originally danced need not determine
how it later came to be played. I'm referring to classical music (or
Presumably the Traditional tunes for the NSP would be among those included
in the basic tune books. However I have reason to believe that many of
these started life as fiddle tunes and many more, which lie beautifully on the
pipes (such as Madame Bonapart) came from other parts of what
