Lupi della Majella: the abruzzese tradition’s recovery
The Gran Sasso and the Maiella, natur’s oasis and magnificent myths, with their impressive and majestic beauties, have always been the symbol and the reference of the whole Abruzzo overlooked by their tops, the highest and the most picturesque of the Italy Apennines. This attractive mountain systems,in their sublime and ancestral silences, are covered by a myriad of myths, tales and mysteries, often tied to traditions, rites and pagan cults. From here it takes the name on of the most…
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Viggiano’s harp: the indissoluble bond between land and music
The Viggiano’s harp is a popular harp, of which we have news date back to 1700, strictly linked to territory, a small Basilicata village set in Val D’Agri, Potenza province. At Viggiano, the harp was a very commond instrument, so that the municipality archives prove that in one family out of three there was a harp musician. Many Viggiano’s inhabitants place their life hopes in the music, and particularly in the harp. Le arpe dei Viggianesi, costruite da artigiani locali, erano leggere…
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The Malinteisa: Valle Stura’s Occitan music group
The La Malinteisa is a Cultural Association with the headquarters in Demonte, center of Valle Stura in Cuneo’s province. It has the aim to perform typical Occitan dances of south-west Piedmont and French people and wide valleys: courente, balet, gigo, bourrèe, scottish, brandle de chevaux, congo. The group enlivens parties and events with the aim to put in contact an increasing number of people and most of all young people to this ancient culture in the friendship and fun’s spirit. La Malinteisa…
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Morricone’s triplete, who is 87 years old and never stop to enchant
An amazing 2016 beginning for Ennio Morricone, who after last January triumph at Golden Globe and the 14 February one at BAFTA, receives also the maximum recognition during the Oscar 2016 ceremony at Los Angeles. To remember also the star with his name introduced the last days in the famous Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The italian composer, from Arpino but born at Rome, had already get a Oscar in 2007 for the carreer, but the 87 years old master…
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Montagnes Valdôtaines, the popular song become the Valle D’Aosta anthem
Montagnes Valdôtaines is a popular song from Valle D’Aostam, that since 2006 has been adopted as the official anthem of the Indipendent in the Teresio Colombotto’s harmony. Its enormous fame compared with other popular songs, is up to the fact that for decades it was the theme of the radio newscast La voix de la Vallée broadcast by the regional RAI headquarters. The author of the melody is Alfred Roland, sent in 1832 to Bagnères-de-Bigorre in the french Pyrenees, the song originally…
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Stornello: the keeper of the roman popular culture
The stornello is a kind of very simple poetry usually improvised, with a love or satirical subject, similar to the nursery rhymes. The stornello is typical of the central Italy, especially Tuscany, Lazio and Marche, later it spread also in the southern Italy. According to some literature and music historians, the word stornello should be derived from the starling way of singing: bouncing the voice from a place to another. The stornello’s lucky is tied to its shortness and spontaneity,…
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Su pipiolu, the sardinian dances’ accompainment
The most common choreutic form in Sardinian dances is the circle disposition of the dancers, with a circular walk always towards left. Inside this rich patrimony a variety of sources scan the dance’s rythms: the monodic singing of the male and female voice, the vocal polyphony, the voice with instrumental accompainment. It’s indeed present in Sardinia a great number of “smaller” instruments, used in the narrow areas and in the non professional settings mainly for dance’s accompainment. Among these musical…
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Antonio Piccininno is 100 years old: Carpino celebrating
Antonio Piccininno (or Pecceninne for his people), voice of Carpino’s Cantors, the cantor with the castanets, the last great witness of the musical tradition of the Gargano’s tarantella. When he was a child in the woods of waht today is the Gargano National Park the adult shepherds handed down to him the popular singing that he obsessively repeats. As an adult, he dedicates to the fields’ farming. Shepherd and farmer, with his 100 springtimes represents one of the most interesting,…
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