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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…
Introduction: Father Bartolomeo Di Salvo and his transcriptions of the Byzantine chants among the Albanians of Sicily
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 …
Ancora sulle "esplosive palatali" nelle inchieste dell'Atlante Linguistico del Mediterraneo (ALM): i punti albanesi
2021
Tra i «Problemi redazionali» emersi in fase di controllo e organizzazione dei materiali giunti dalla campagna di rilevamenti dell’Atlante Linguistico del Mediterraneo (ALM), Berruto (1971-1973) rileva la proliferazione e l’eterogeneità di alcune scelte grafemiche operate da diversi raccoglitori che, impegnati in una trascrizione più o meno puntuale delle risposte ottenute, avevano interpretato e risolto variamente alcune delle indicazioni previste nel sistema di trascrizione fonetica che accompagnava il Questionario. Particolarmente complesso era emerso il quadro relativo alla trascrizione di alcune consonanti del settore “palatale”, per le quali i grafemi (e i foni a essi corrispondenti) p…
Per un approccio settoriale allo studio del mutamento lessicale nelle varietà italoalbanesi. Il campo semantico degli animali
2021
We have already had the opportunity to demonstrate to what extent the distinction between “common” and “specialised” lexicon is a crucial key to the evaluation of processes of lexical substitution within Sicilian-Albanian contexts. Unlike to what happens to the dynamics of contact among the varieties of Italo-Romance repertoires (where dialectal variants seem to be better preserved in some experiential fields that are typical of traditional activities), in the Sicilian-Albanian context, the original (Albanian) lexicon seems to be more preserved within the setting of specific experiencial fields of a greater community sharing (and, substantially, in the urban context). Instead, the concepts …
Considerazioni su alcune dinamiche sociolinguistiche in contesto siculoalbanese
2015
This study investigates diverse sociolinguistic dynamics relating to Sicilian Albanian communities. In light of a survey of the socio-demographic and socio-economic aspects characterising the communities under scrutiny, it has emerged that these communities have a twofold configuration: on the one hand, the community of Piana degli Albanesi presents features of mobility and typically “urban” details, on the other hand, the communities of S. Cristina and Contessa Entellina can be distinguished by an apparent state of isolation and typically “rural” traits. By contrast to what mainstream tendencies may encourage thinking about, the urban socio-economic structured community is sociolinguistica…
Fjalor shpjegues i fjalëve të rralla të Filjes
2022
This chapter contains a lexicographical study and vocabulary of rare words of the Chieuti Codex, an important manuscript of Albanian literary tradition (XVIII c.), edited by Matteo Mandalà.
Fare rotta verso nuove terre: la diaspora greco-albanese della prima età moderna
2021
The contribution aims to frame the diasporic phenomenon of the 15th-16th centuries of the Balkan populations from areas roughly corresponding today to Albania and Greece, reading it according to a plurality of levels and intertwining that characterize the Mediterranean modern age history. Specifically, the paper summarizes the most recent reflections on the subject and focuses on the reasons that triggered the migration flows and on the historiographical narration over the centuries.
Il Seminario greco-albanese di Palermo e la memoria documentaria delle comunità arbëreshe. Inventario
2021
Il contributo, nel presentare l'inventario dell'archivio storico del Seminario greco-albanese di Palermo (secc. XVIII-XX), illustra le vicende documentarie delle comunità arbëreshe di Sicilia. The contribution, in presenting the inventory of the historical archive of the Greek-Albanian Seminary of Palermo (XVIII-XX centuries), illustrates the documentary events of the Arbëreshe communities of Sicily.
Gli archivi ecclesiali e la memoria storico-culturale degli Arbëreshë. Un bilancio di tre decenni di ricerche
2017
La storia dell'emigrazione albanese in Italia costituisce un capitolo speciale delle ricerche albanologiche italiane. Il saggio si ripropone di definire una griglia cronologica di un fenomeno migratorio ampio e complesso e di risalire alla tipologia degli insediamenti albanesi nell'Italia meridionale. Le fonti primarie (archivi delle regioni meridionali e i registri parrocchiali) concorrono con i dati linguistici (onomaiologici e toponomastici) a ricostruire la complessa rete che collega le realtà albanofone italiane e balcaniche. The history of Albanian emigration to Italy constitutes a special chapter of Italian albanological research. The essay proposes to define a chronological grid of …