My point is the linking of too quite distinct words, with entirely different meanings, to make a concept that we seem to understand and dicuss, but which make no real sense together.

Music is always (and can only be) made in the present.

Tradition, opinion or belief or custom handed down from one generation to another esp. orally; handing down of these. According to my dictionary.

I would argue that what is being handed down is simply the custom of making music..... Not the style of that music. Which will and certainly has changed. Would Sam Pepys recognise "Babara Allen", now as the same song he heard then?

Would he seriously have asked himself if people would still be continuing the custom of just making music? I doubt it.

You can't hand down the air. The air in which the music is alive, only for that moment.

It is possible to write down something of its nature and now to record only the sound of it very accuratly......... You need to smell it too however, to get more than an image or a shadow of the magic moment.