oral tradition

OR-rul trah-DI-shun. [English] Music that is passed from person to person by imitation and example rather than by written notations. Most forms of folk music are examples of oral tradition.

The oral traditions and expressions domain encompasses an enormous variety of spoken forms including proverbs, riddles, tales, nursery rhymes, legends, myths, epic songs and poems, charms, prayers, chants, songs, dramatic performances and more.

Oral and Written Traditions As long as a song was sung, it obviously had an oral tradition; the written tradition began when a scribe translated the words into letters and the music into neumes [notes] on parchment - perhaps contemporaneously with the troubadour, perhaps later.

Oral traditions can be categorized into different types, including legends, myths, folktales, and memorates. A memorate is an account of a personal experience or encounter with the supernatural, such as a ghost story or other expression of the spirit to a human being.

Oral tradition (sometimes referred to as "oral culture" or "oral lore") is cultural material and traditions transmitted orally from one generation to another.

Examples of tradition in a Sentence One of our town's time-honored traditions is to have an Easter egg hunt the week before Easter. It is their tradition to give thanks before they start eating. There's an office tradition of wearing casual clothes on Fridays. They no longer follow the traditions of their ancestors.

The oral tradition is transmitted through word of mouth while literary tradition involves written texts like vedas.

The oral cavity, or more commonly known as the mouth or buccal cavity, serves as the first portion of the digestive system.

While often associated with indigenous American communities who have entire ceremonies dedicated to the transfer of knowledge, stories, and traditions, many societies across the world relied on oral tradition historically, such as the ancient Vedic South Asians, indigenous Australians, West African kingdoms, Central ...

tra·​di·​tion trə-ˈdish-ən. 1. : the handing down of information, beliefs, or customs from one generation to another. 2. : a belief or custom handed down by tradition.

a belief, principle, or way of acting that people in a particular society or group have continued to follow for a long time, or all of these beliefs, etc.

Advantages of oral tradition

• Some of the advantages of oral traditions are:
• Oral traditions do not need a person to know how to read and write.
• Historians get first-hand information from the people.
• Information is easy to collect.
• Historians can interview people anywhere and at any time.