Roberto Leydi (21 February 1928, in

Ivrea Ivrea (; pms, Ivrèja ; ; lat, Eporedia) is a town and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy. Situated on the road leading to the Aosta Valley (part of the medieval Via Francigena), it stradd ...

– 15 February 2003, in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard language, Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the List of cities in Italy, second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 ...

) was an Italian

ethnomusicologist Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dim ...

. He started his career in the field of contemporary music and jazz, and in the 1950s started his research into the social significance of folk and popular music. He published widely, including ''L'altra musica'' (''The Other Music''; ed. Giunti-Ricordi 1991) and ''I canti popolari italiani'', (''Italian folksongs''; Mondadori, 1973.) He was known as sponsor and coordinator of numerous projects and festivals to display and preserve Italian music, both traditional and recent. Shortly before his death, he donated his entire private collection (some 700 musical instruments, 6'000 records, 10'000 books, and 1'000 tapes) to the Centro di dialettologia e di etnografia (Center for

Dialectology Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , '' -logia'') is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their asso ...

and Ethnography) in

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, Switzerland.Official webpage of the "Fondo Roberto Leydi"
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Works

*''L' altra musica. Etnomusicologia'', Lucca, LIM, 2008 *''L' influenza turco-ottomana e zingara nella musica dei Balcani'', Nico Staiti, Nicola Scaldaferri (a cura di), Udine, Nota, 2004 *''Gli strumenti musicali e l'etnografia italiana (1881-1911)'' /Roberto Leydi, Febo Guizzi, Lucca, LIM, 1996 *''L'altra musica'', Giunti-Ricordi, 1991 *''I canti popolari italiani'', Mondadori, 1973 *''Musica popolare e musica primitiva'', Torino-Eri, 1959

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* Marcello Sorce Keller, "En souvenir de Roberto Leydi (1928-2003) – Les origines et l’évolution de l’éthnomusicologie en Italie", ''Cahiers de musiques traditionnel''les, XVII/2004, pp. 297–314; republished as "Un ricordo di Roberto Leydi (1928-2003): un’occasione per riflettere sulle origini dell’etnomusicologia in Italia", ''Cenobio'', LIV(2005), no. 2, pp. 145–162.

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* 1928 births 2003 deaths People from Ivrea Musicians from Milan 20th-century Italian musicians 20th-century Italian musicologists {{Italy-musician-stub

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