New album and new song for Nd’Arranciamu
The new album of Nd’Arranciamu band from Vibo Valentia comes out with the song “L’angeli cantanu”, taken from a popular-religoius song written at the beginning of 1800 by the abbot Giovanni Conia di Galatro. The popular team directed by Felice Napoleone, who left from Porto Salvo in 2009 with passion, is ready to promote the new album. Waiting to finish the album, in these weeks the song “L’angeli cantanu” comes out. The song is the result of a clear research,…
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The Corde Oblique band works on the new album after the China tour
The Chinese tour of the Progressive Ethereal Folk italian Band Corde Oblique is ended, after 9 live performances. The band is now in the studios to record the sixth album for which is active on Musicraiser.com the crwofunding campaign for the new album’s promotion, that will allow them to collect money for the sound recording’s expenses. The new songs are rich in collaborations, with italian and foreign artists, among them Denitza Seraphimova voice of the Bulgarian Irfan band and Walter…
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Ballettu: an agropastoral sicilian dance
The sicilian Ballettu has some analogies with the southern tarantella wider family; it was performed most of all in a mixed and not mixed couple; many are the local variations, some of them even in the tied and much turned shape (pirullè), so that wide is its musical repertory. Searching the last traces of the traditional agropastoral sicilian tarantas, we find the “Ballettu”, a dance from the mountainous area near Messina, the Peloritani, endangered in its oldest form, but still…
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Launeddas: The Sound of Sardinia
The launeddas are a woodwind musical instrument with knocker reed, originating from Sardinia. The Launeddas are a direct descendant of the ancient double egyptian and sumerian clarinet and have some archaic sections preserved concerning both the building and the execution technique that, at first sight, make them surprisingly similar to their ancient precursors. It is an instrument with very ancient origins able to produce polyphony, it is played with the circular breathing technique and it is built using different kinds…
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Zampogna in each region, the ultimate Christmas’ instrument
The zampogna is an instrument which sound is produced through air vibration, contained in a flexible tank inserted between the musician’s mouth and several reed aerophones. It was considered, in the classical period, the result of Pan flute’s transformation. From the Middle Ages to the modern era, it has been diversified into many local typologies, among which the scottish and irish indirect inflation bagpipe, the french musetta and the piva. The zampogna has ancient origins: it is probable its lineage…
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The Accordeon Classique ends the year with his first cd
The Accordeon Classique is a virtuoso accordion group, an instrument unfairly considered for a long time minor because it is aassociated with the popular music. The formation was born three years ago as a quintet, expression of Borgofranco”Accordeon” school operative for a period of twenty years and created by Cinzia Tarditi, a teacher graduated at the conservatory. At the beginning the group was composed by four traditional accordions and by a bass accordion. The musical ensamble gets rich with two…
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Giuseppe Giuliano’s school and its musical path with Sparagna
The 6 January at Rome’s Auditorium Music Park the students of the Giuseppe Giuliano Inclusive Institute from Latina will be the protagonists of La Chiarastella‘s event, directed by the master Ambrogio Sparagna. We’ve spoken with the Institute’s Principal, the professor Cherubina Ramacci, to deepen the musical question into the schools, to understand how it is situaded inside the educational planning and to know which were the answers coming from the students. Il 6 Gennaio 2016 all’Auditorium Parco della Musica di…
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Voici venir la nuit, popular song from Valle D’Aosta
Voici venir la nuit’s starting point is a traditional popular song from Valle D’Aosta about the mountain’s contemplation. This is, as most of this region’s popular songs, a french song, characterized by a vocal that slowly deploy on the horizon. A path through different vocal structures that find their place in a melody in which distant bell tolls ring, as to announce the coming of the night. Punto di partenza di Voici venir la nuit è un canto popolare tradizionale valdostano…
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