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Composing in the folk tradition
A composer explains why he prefers to write music for traditional musicians. He explains that musicians are more important than instruments because of what they bring to the music in terms of ornamentation, variation and other stylistic features. This is exemplified with an extract from a performance for flute and ensemble.
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