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Il rito musicale del Lazzaro nelle comunità arbëreshe di Sicilia. Con CD-ROM
2016
Questo volume è dedicato al rito del “Lazzaro” nei cinque centri siciliani siculo-albanesi. Si tratta di una tradizione di origine orientale che caratterizza fortemente il venerdì che precede la Domenica delle Palme (ricorrenza detta, nel mondo bizantino, Venerdì di Lazzaro). Il rito è incentrato su un canto in arbëresh che narra l’episodio evangelico della resurrezione di Lazzaro. Il canto è eseguito in due differenti contesti: nelle chiese arbëreshe di rito bizantino può essere intonato una prima volta al termine della Liturgia dei Presantificati, sebbene ciò non sia previsto nelle rubriche dei libri liturgici; in un secondo momento viene eseguito per le strade, dove ha luogo il rito musi…
Dall’antropologia della musica all’acustemologia
2021
Il testo delinea una storia dell'etnomusicologia a partire dalla pubblicazione di "Antropolologia della musica" di A. P. Merriam, per arrivare alle nuove opzioni metodologiche proposte da Steven Feld con l'antropologia del suono e l'acustemologia. The text outlines the development of studies in the field of the so called Ethtnomusicology from the publishing of the book "Antthropology of Music" by A. P. Merriam up to new approaches such as "anthropology of sound" and "acoustemology" proposed by Steven Feld.
I barbieri maestri di musica
2009
Il testo illustra le pratiche musicali legate al contesto dei barbieri siciliani, seguendo una documentazione che va dalla fine del Quattrocento fino ai nostri giorni, attraverso testimonianze rilevate dall'autore in numerosi centri della Sicilia. Le musiche in questione sono eseguite con strumenti a corda e il repertorio contiene soprattutto brani da ballo e canzonette.
The Orbi Tradition: Blind Street Singers in Sicily
2019
In Sicily, the street music was primarily entrusted to a class of professional singers and players called orbi (“blind”). In 1661 orbi gathered in Palermo at the brotherhood of the Immaculate Conception under the protection of the Jesuits, marking their first official appearance in the historical record. The testimonies of the activity of orbi between the 18th and 19th centuries offers a detailed account of both their repertoire – composed mainly of sacred songs, but also of storii (“narrative songs”), canzuni (“songs”), ditties and dance music – and their performative contecxts. For instance, they were called to perform at religious celebrations, weddings and convivial events, serenades, a…
Bartolomeo di Salvo: Chants of the Byzantine Rite: The Italo-Albanian Tradition in Sicily (Canti Ecclesiastici della Tradizione Italo-Albanese in Sic…
2016
Father Bartolomeo Di Salvo established an extensive collection of transcriptions of the Canti ecclesiastici della tradizione Siculo-Albanese (Ecclesiastical chants of the Italian-Albanian tradition in Sicily) in the 1950s and early 1960s. It was planned that this collection would be published soon after as the fifth volume in the Serie Subsidia of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae (MMB). A plan that in 2016, after about 50 years from the conception of the original editorial project has finally been realized with this publication. The collection of Father Bartolomeo Di Salvo consist of 259 pages, containing transcriptions of 484 items: whole chants, variants and analyses of formulaic schemes …
Traces of ison and biphonies in Byzantine chant of Sicilian Arbëresh
2012
After an introduction on the relevance of the written musical source in the Byzantine tradition of the Arbëresh minority in Sicily, the paper focuses on a small group of them containing multipart musics, mainly ison and biphonies. The paper explores, mostly, the performative aspects of these sources in the contemporary religious practices, and their symbolic relevance as part of a very specific musical and cultural identity.
A Greek-Byzantine musical island inside an Italian island: the Byzantine chant of the Arbëresh of Sicily
2015
The Albanians (the Arbëresh) constitute the largest linguistic ethnic “minority” in Sicily. The community is made up of around 20,000 people living in 5 towns, all of which are in the province of Palermo. The most important of these villages is Piana degli Albanesi, where the Bishop (whose Greek name is Eparca) of the Diocese (the Eparchìa) of the Albanians of Sicily has is seat. The cultural identity of the Albanians of Sicily is basically expressed by the Arbëresh language and the Byzantine rite. The chant is a fundamental element of the Arbëresh-Byzantine Liturgies and Offices (Matins, Vespers, Hours). The liturgical repertoire is very wide and accompanies the entire liturgical year. The…
Etnografie del suono tra natura e cultura
2020
Relationship between nature and culture has deeply changed within the years, from an almost expected opposition of the two terms to a total overthrow which implies their mutual entanglement. The aim of this contribution is to show how such a change has affected oral musical tradition studies, focusing on some topics belong-ing to different theoretical-methodological frames and different historical periods: from comparative musicology to ethnomusicology, from anthropology of music to biomusicology (in reference also to evolutive musicology and to zoomusicology), from anthropology of sound to acustemology. Among the themes dealt with: the “na-ture” of musical scales, the phylogeny of musical …
Riti musicali del cordoglio in Sicilia
2014
Questo testo illustra svariate pratiche vocali e strumentali (canti, lamenti, richiami, suoni di campane, ritmi dei tamburi, musiche bandistiche) associate ai riti per la celebrazione e commemorazione dei defunti, caratterizzati in Sicilia da un evidente sincretismo tra le norme dettate dalla Chiesa e gli usi popolari. I “suoni del cordoglio” sono stati analizzati sia sotto il profilo musicale sia in ordine alle funzioni sociosimboliche, ponendo in evidenza le dinamiche di persistenza e mutamento fra un recente passato e quanto è ancora oggi osservabile. L’indagine è inoltre estesa alle celebrazioni in cui si inscenano “funerali fittizi”, come quelli del Cristo nelle processioni pasquali e …
Musical Mourning Rituals in Sicily
2017
This article surveys various vocal and instrumental performances (chants, laments, calls, sounds of church bells and drums, band music) connected to the ritual celebration and commemoration of the dead that are still characterized in Sicily by a manifest syncretism between Christian Church rules and folk customs and beliefs. These “sounds of mourning” are examined in terms of both their musical aspects and their social and symbolic functions, with special attention given to the changing dynamics between the present day and the recent past. The focus also extends to include celebrations in which “fictitious funerals” are performed, such as those for Christ during the Easter procession and fo…