I would really like to learn from experts here about what signature MUSICAL and LYRICAL elements there are in our traditional music.
That might help describe it to me as a musician - not define it but describe it.

(you know modality, imbellishment, narrative themes etc) - by the way I think that the Scots and Irish are much more able to describe their tradition in those type of terms than we are. I am not sure why, perhaps they just are more intimately acquainted with the detail of it ?


So I think I'll have a look at that other thread about what is trad music or some such title.