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Thread #112220   Message #2372118
Posted By: greg stephens
22-Jun-08 - 05:37 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Define English Trad Music
Subject: RE: Folklore: Define English Trad Music
I would hesitate to disagree with the illustrious director of the Village Music Project, but I would suggest that there is plenty of evidence that traditional English players used trebles and rolls(though not necessarily under that those names, which I believe are possibly Irish usage, and possibly modern at that).Or, perhaps it is more accurate to say there is plenty of evidence that they wrote them down. Whether they actually played them or not is not so certain, as we are talking about books written down pre the recording era.
If you would like to examine the evidence, perhaps you should take a look in some MS books. I believe there is a national online collection whose name escapes me.
(Ha ha, joke)