Another thing that interests me in this subject is how literal interpretation of notation might feedback into aural traditions and alter them. Say, for instance, a particular genre played a tune form, for example a hornpipe, with a triplet swing feel. This gets notated as 4/4 maybe using a word like 'Lively' as a code for swing interpretation. The tune gets put into a collection without the 'lively' bit and, as a result, re-enters the tradition as a reel.

Would this be a good thing, a bad thing or just part of the folk process?