Ah, get where you're coming from now, jag. Of course it's jargon but so what! Isn't that the whole idea of jargon, that a particular interest group can use certain terms that they all understand to keep things concise? Is it really such a crime to use the words 'oral tradition' instead of 'oral transmission'?

I shall bring this up at the next TSF meeting and tell them all how naughty they have been! And then the musicology police can cast us all in prison.