What we sweepingly call the Western classical tradition is actually a confluence of music from more than a dozen countries and three religions.

Grimassi formerly taught what he called the Aridian tradition.

Grimassi taught what he called the Aridian tradition from 1980.

You might even call it an argument for professional matchmaking and the tradition of arranged marriage.

The delegates want a revival of what they call "the biblical tradition of optional celibacy, which existed in the first 12 centuries of church life."

The funeral director had tried to discourage him, calling the fistful-of-earth tradition "archaic" and "morbid."

It is also called the great tradition of winemaking in the area, unique for its taste and graduation.

It would be modeled after what she called "the grand tradition of American Presidential libraries."

Richard Bushman has called the spiritual tradition of the Smith family "a religious melee."

Where other painters delighted in the distilled wisdom of the ages, Dubuffet detested what he called "the humanist tradition."