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Thread #167340   Message #4039483
Posted By: Jim Carroll
14-Mar-20 - 09:22 AM
Thread Name: Mediation and its definition in folk music
Subject: RE: Mediation and its definition in folk music
" have been interested in tunes."
Tunes have always been a moveable feast difficult to attach to one particular song or ballad
This would be much acceelerated if the literary origins therory were true
As it is, unless songs were learned orally a singer took a tune that fitted - fact
Jim Carroll