Great success in Italy and abroad for Giuliano Gabriele’s “Madre”
Great success in Italy and abroad for “Madre” “Madre” is the sharp title of the second album of Giuliano Gabriele dedicated to the primary element that distinghhuish the traditional south Italy’s muisic, the rythm. The album expresses the will to reunite the music of the southern regions in a experimental artistic project that is firmly grounded to the tarantella’s tradition, most of all through the hypnotic times of dance, undermining the sound and harmonic methods of the popular music. Giuliano from…
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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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The timpani: from the dionysian rituals, to the orchestra, up to the Flintstones’ theme
The timpanis are the musical instruments of the membranophone class, of the drums’ family. It is played through a direct percussion of the drum sticks whose extremities have a padding to soften the beat. It produces a determined sound, regulating the leather’s tension through mechanisms, nowadays actioned by pedals. The instrument is made by a copper or brass bucket (boiler), over which a membrane is lay out, once a leather one, now typically composed by a mylar sheet (a synthetic…
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“Suonati. Notes from the musical schools from Trentino”: the contest gets to the heart
On the Facebook profile of the Historic Museum of Trentino Foundation (www.facebook.com/museostorico) there are the thirteen videosof the groups partecipating to the contest Suonati. Notes from the musical schools from Trentino. Here they can be voted clicking on “Like”. Tutti entreranno comunque a far parte di un programma di History Lab che racconterà una delle eccellenze del Trentino: le sue tredici Scuole, che, insieme, formano il Sistema per la formazione musicale di base. Uno strumento per diffondere la passione per la seconda…
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