What you presented in that post was a travesty of the weight of argument in this thread, during which a succession of level-headed, coherent and generally non-fundamentalist posters have thoroughly trashed the notion that "there is no tradition" (or "folk process" or whatever).

Sorry, Brian - I have seen little by way of level headedness much less coherence in response to the various issues I've raised on this thread (or any other). On the contrary, in their stead I've been subject to a barrage of name-calling, bile, vitriol, and downright nastiness. If (as you seem to be suggesting) such fundamentalist hysteria passes for weight of argument then indeed my heretical notions have been well and truly trashed - as indeed have I. I'm not about to flounce off though - I'm sticking around, ever optimistic that someone, somewhen, might come up with something worth reading other than the usual reportage of self-evident truisms, personal insults, or suggestions that Shoenberg's music is some sort of Nazi Code.