Hurrah ! for the intellectuals , without whom much of our great mucical tradition would have gone unrecorded, and become eventually lost !! Whether the " traditional style " that they noted is , or became, "ersatz" ( not a traditional word, by any means ) , is a matter for some debate , by far better people than the Bubblyrats and Weelittledrummers of this world, but it is better, surely, than having no recorded "tradition" at all ??