I'm still puzzled by the amount of baggage placed on hrh's request for information on what is left if -'if' - we look at what is not included in three categories of music (not geographical areas)

I think this says more about the people making the comments than hrh. And I speak as a Northerner.

"To deny that the regions of a country are part of that country is unhelpful, however, and will inevitably weaken any argument which includes that assumption. " - who said that? hrh certainly didn't.

And Captain Birdseye, "in answer to guest cg.Cape Clear.originally BlackEyed Susan an air by Leviridge originally sung in the Village Opera IN 1729. ". Ah, a song tune.

"Slow airs are by definition song tunes"?????????????????? No. Slow airs are - slow airs. They may, for example, have an unsingably large range.