Traditional Music is a quasi-synonym for folk music. Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ...
Trad / Trad arr
Trad is an abbreviation that often appears in a musical context. Look up abbreviation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Abbreviation (from Latin brevis short) is strictly a shortening, but more particularly, an abbreviation is a letter or group of letters, taken from a word or words, and employed to represent them for the sake of brevity. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Music City : a collaborative music database All Music Guide...
It is short for Traditional and commonly appears on track credits for musical recording where the original composer is unknown. A tradition is a story or a custom that is memorized and passed down from generation to generation, originally without the need for a writing system. ...
It is also used with "arr."; (Trad. arr Person X) to signify that the track was a traditional tune or song but was arranged for this recording by Person X.
Music and lyrics are passed aurally/orally, and were rarely written down until recently (depending upon your definition of "recently", there are many examples of written music previous to the 1800's).
The best-known regional fiddling traditions are from Donegal, Sligo, Sliabh Luachra and Clare.
The heavy metal band Thin Lizzy did not often use Irish musicaltraditions in their songs (though their reworking of the traditional folk staple, "Whiskey in the Jar" was a huge hit), but singer and songwriter Phil Lynott is often said to be a modern incarnation of the Irish poetry tradition.
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