Pseu, I'm the thickest-skinned person on the planet!

There is a very strong movement starting up led by Sheffield University and Julia Bishop with strong TSF connections which is concentrating on the tunes of folksongs. I've contributed a paper to their first volume. Although I don't read music I can still research the history of tunes.
My paper is on the evolution and history of the ubiquitous tune 'Derry Down'.

If you contact Joe I'm sure he'd willingly set up a permathread on tune studies and history. I have long said at our meetings that this aspect of our research is sadly underresearched mainly because most of us are firmly text-based.