The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #171011   Message #4136515
Posted By: Jack Campin
13-Feb-22 - 06:09 PM
Thread Name: Folksong tune evolution
Subject: RE: Folksong tune evolution
Thanks, I’m using a tiny font and the curliness of the quotes would been utterly invisible. Now to suss out how to straighten them.

I’d already noticed the indel processes on tunes that persisted over a long time - the description I gave (not original to me) of the evolution of the psalm tune Martyrs is exactly the sort of thing they describe in the paper.