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
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: Greg ...
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
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 ...
. 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 research of
Ernesto De Martino and Carpitella in Southern Italy. Along with classification of its materials (which, since 1996, has included
Leo Levi's collection of Hebrew liturgical music), the Archive has issued a journal since 1993, entitled ''EM — Rivista degli Archivi di Etnomusicologia dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia'', which is currently published by Squilibri, Rome.
External links
Bulletin of Italian Ethnomusicology National Academy of Santa Cecilia
See also
* Folk Music of Italy
References
Music of Italy
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