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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A popular singing from Termoli in Elio e le storie tese’s song
Few seconds of the traditional popular singing from Termoli closes “Vacanza Alternativa”, the song included in the album Figatta De Blanc, last work of the famous band Elio e le storie tese, published on 14 February. The song was listened by Elio at Termoli in 2008, when the group performed in the Harbour Square for a sold out concert during the Clouds Festival. The music and the refrain of “U Battellucce”, a traditional popular singing from Termoli, placed at the…
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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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Music for Sunset: from Lake Trasimeno to Radio3 on air
A prestigious national showcase for the Music for Sunset Festival, a sunset acoustic suggestions’ kermesse commissioned at Lake Trasimeno Major Island by the umbrian Song and author’s music association. On Sunday 14 February, at midnight, the Radio3 popular broadcast Rai Beats, the favourite stage in Italy for the international avantgarde music all along, broadcast the recording of Paolo Angeli e Iva Bittova’s concert, produced by the Music for Sunset festival and presented in the closing night of 21015 edition, last 25…
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The Popular Singing New Company chosen by Marco Dentici for his theatre
Marco Dentici, one of the most famous set designer of our cinema, author and director, awarded many times with international recognitions, back to the theatre as an author with a new project of a great commitment and of a dramatic newness, The passion. For the musics of this work Dentici has chose the sesibility and the specific acoustics of the Popular Singing New Company. The NCCP during this days, busy with the preparation of a new album is performing with success…
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The First May contest for the New Artists and the Live Club
Rome First May concert contest extends the registration’s closing up to 29 february 2016 and opens a special section dedicated to the italian live club’s circuit 1MNext è il contest del Concerto del Primo Maggio di Roma dedicato ai NUOVI ARTISTI. Il bando di concorso dell’1MNext 2016 è già on-line sul sito del Concerto del Primo Maggio www.primomaggio.net/1mnext e la sua scadenza (prevista per il 19 febbraio) viene invece prorogata fino alla mezzanotte del prossimo 29 febbraio 2016. Il Concerto del…
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