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GUEST,jag Mediation and its definition in folk music (582* d) RE: Mediation and its definition in folk music 23 Feb 20


"Do we have to consider his use of the word 'educated' in the context of his discussion of the illiterate and the unlettered?".

In the context of that whole discussion. He is talking about mode changes to tunes used in John Gay's The Beggars Opera. "Gay, who was a townsman and, therefore, steeped in the music of his day, would unconsciously modernize the tunes, which he sang to his collaborator." (Gay was not a musician)




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