And of course the UK has a living tradition, and I'm pleased to inform you that it always will have whilst people are still writing songs and tunes influenced by, and paying respect to that tradition.

Er - no, nay, never...

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Peter Bellamy used the term 'Tradition Idiom' with respect of the tunes he composed to go with the Rudyard Kipling poems. Despite his 'thesis', these worked much better (IMHO!) than the actual Traditional ones he used. In this he proved himself a latter day master of a revival founded on something undoubtably old, but essentially repro in essence, as examplified by his songwriting on The Transports etc, brilliant though it was.

It pays, I think, to know and respect the difference - as Bellamy undoubtably did.