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===[[Australian Traditional Players]]===
===[[Australian Traditional Players]]===
The major part of the work in documenting Australia's traditional players was done by the late [[John Meredith]] in association with a number of other researchers.
[[Australian Traditional Players|Here is a list]] of the known performers.
See also the National Library of Australia [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/picturescatalogue pictures catalogue] for John Meredith's collection of pictures of traditional players. (Search on ''John Meredith'' and ''Creator'').


===[[French Canadian Traditional Players]]===
===[[French Canadian Traditional Players]]===

Latest revision as of 14:19, 16 February 2016

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Music is made by individuals who are free to make their own musical choices, despite being to a greater or lesser degree constrained by their culture. The study of traditional music should therefore take into account those individuals and their importance.

Throughout history most traditional players would not consciously have tried to play what others would later call their National Music ; rather, they would simply have acquired good tunes as they heard them and whatever their provenance, and adapted them for their own purpose, as most still do.

The definition of a musician's nationality may be loosely applied. Some players were born and lived in one country, playing whatever music came their way in a style that could be described as belonging to that country. Some may have been children of immigrants from elsewhere, and played the music of their ancestral country. It doesn't really matter that much. This section is just to narrow the search.


English Traditional Players

Scottish Traditional Players

Irish Traditional Players

Welsh Traditional Players

American Traditional Players

Australian Traditional Players

French Canadian Traditional Players