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Centro Nazionale Di Studi Di Musica Popolare
The Centro Nazionale di Studi di Musica Popolare (CNSMP; Italian: "National Centre for Folk Music Studies") is a scholarly center for music studies in Italy. It is housed on the premises of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. The CNSMP was founded in 1948 by Giorgio Nataletti. Currently, the Archives of Ethnomusicology contain over 11,000 recordings of traditional music, including about 7,000 documents of Italian folk music. Special attention is devoted to the Central and Southern regions — including Sicily and Sardinia — and to liturgical chants of the Mediterranean. The collections include the research of Alan Lomax Alan Lomax (; January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music during the 20th century. He was a musician, folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activ ... and Diego Carpitella, hundreds of documents recorded in 1954–55, as well as the results of the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Academy Of Santa Cecilia
The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia () is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded by the papal bull ''Ratione congruit'', issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western musical history: Gregory the Great, for whom the Gregorian chant is named, and Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Since 2005 it has been headquartered at the Renzo Piano designed Parco della Musica in Rome. It was founded as a "congregation", or "confraternity", and over the centuries has grown from a forum for local musicians and composers to an internationally acclaimed academy active in music scholarship (with 100 prominent music scholars forming the body of the Accademia), music education (in its role as a College or university school of music, conservatory) and performance (with an active choir and a symphony orchestra, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia). The :Conservatorio Santa Cecilia alumni, category of alumni of the assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Nataletti
Giorgio Nataletti (June 12, 1907 -July 16, 1972) was an Italian ethnomusicologist, composer, pioneer in Italian radio and film, recording studio executive, and radio broadcaster and executive. He began his career serving as the music director for Italy's first radio station in 1922-1923, and later was a radio broadcaster for the RAI program "Cronache Italiane del Turismo" from 1936-1943. He also served as that program's music director from 1948 until 1955 when he was appointed artistic director of the Italian branch of RCA Records. He composed scores to some of the first sound films made in Italy in 1930-1931. He was the first director of the Ethnomusicological Archives at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome where he was a professor from 1940 through 1972. He was in charge of a vast project from 1948–72 to record traditional Italian music. It was done under the auspices of RAI, the Italian Radio and Television agency. The results are preserved in the RAI archives as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Folk Music
Italian folk music reflects a long and diverse history. Italian unification, National unification occurred relatively late on the Italian peninsula, allowing its many hundreds of regional cultures to retain distinct musical traditions. Italy’s geographic position—at the southern edge of Europe and central to the Mediterranean Sea—has contributed to a wide array of external influences. Celtic music, Celtic, Slavs, Slavic, Arabic music, Arabic, Greek music, Greek, Spanish Music, Spanish and Byzantine music, Byzantine musical elements are readily apparent in regional styles. Italy's mountainous geography and the historical dominance of small Italian city-states, city-states further encouraged the persistence of localized traditions. Contemporary classification of Italian folk music often follows the geographic typology proposed by Alan Lomax in 1956, which has been frequently reiterated in later studies. The group and open-voice choral styles of Northern Italy reflect Celtic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liturgical Chant
Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. As a religious phenomenon, liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activities reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembrance, supplication, or repentance. It forms a basis for establishing a relationship with God. Technically speaking, liturgy forms a subset of ritual. The word ''liturgy'', sometimes equated in English as "service", refers to a formal ritual enacted by those who understand themselves to be participating in an action with the divine. Etymology The word ''liturgy'' (), derived from the technical term in ancient Greek (), ''leitourgia'', which means "work or service for the people" is a literal translation of the two affixes λήϊτος, "leitos", derived from the Attic form of λαός ("people, public"), and ἔργον, "ergon", meaning "work, service". In origin, it signified the often expensive offerings wealthy Greeks made in service t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax (; January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music during the 20th century. He was a musician, folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and filmmaker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the U.S. and in England which played an important role in preserving folk music traditions in both countries and helped start both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s, and especially the early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John Lomax, and later, alone and with others. Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs. After 1942, when Congress terminated the Library of Congress's funding for folk song collecting, Lomax continued to collect independently i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Carpitella
Diego Carpitella (Reggio di Calabria, 12 June 1924 – Rome, 7 August 1990) was an Italian professor of ethnomusicology at D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara and La Sapienza University in Rome. He is considered one of the greatest scholars of Italian folk music Italian folk music reflects a long and diverse history. Italian unification, National unification occurred relatively late on the Italian peninsula, allowing its many hundreds of regional cultures to retain distinct musical traditions. Italy’s ... and has written and published many essays on the subject. He collaborated with the Centro Nazionale Studi di Musica Popolare from 1952 to 1958, collecting more than 5,000 Italian folk songs. He was also the founding editor of the journal ''Culture musicali'' and a co-founder of the cultural magazine ''Marcatre''. External links Complete Carpitella bibliography Further reading Agamennone, Maurizio and L. Di Mitra, eds. ''L'eredità di Diego Carpitella.Etnomusico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Levi
Leo Levi (1912–1982) was an Italian Musicology, musicologist. He was the first to study the oral musical traditions of Italian Jewry. Grandson of a rabbi, Levi's attempt to submit a PhD thesis at the University of Turin on the music in Italian synagogues was thwarted by the rise to power of Fascism and the spread of anti-Semitism in Italy. He was arrested on two occasions during his university studies for subversive activities. A fervent Zionist, he emigrated to Palestine in 1936. He returned to Italy after World War II, dedicating himself to the study of Italian-Jewish music. He collaborated with the Centro Nazionale Studi di Musica Popolare at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome and with other Italian Ethnomusicology, ethnomusicologists working in the field, such as Giorgio Nataletti. He was an active part of the project of field recordings done by the RAI (the Italian Radio and Television service) to collect and preserve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
