[Music]
I make musicologist letters but in reality
I started when I was 42 years old to study
these things I used to do before
the tenor singer was singing to my country
with friends since I was a kid I
I learned around the age of 14 I was not there
never placed too many problems of why
as it was sung to tenor of all
traditions of Sardinia in the country
same
so I went with the arm with friends is
continued for so many years until then al
This is the conservatory
opportunity for a course of
ethnomusicology and there I joined
attended the course after three years of
a short degree a degree course
short or finished to become so between
quotes titled ethnomusicologist in
reality does not mean anything
But I understood many of the dynamics
concerning traditional music
oral is a bit so I really am
dedicated after studying in particular
the tenor singing tenor chant
of Sardinia, of which it is today
I want to talk to you about it
it is a form of singing
polivocale in which 4 singers generally
of men, men, men, more or less
adults sing of the verses of poems of the
tradition of Sardinia
this song we say it can be
considered as a way to make music
I see it a little like rock and blues
in an obviously Sardinian version like
it works works that there is a soloist that
sings of the verses and three more that singers
that accompany him and putting some verses
or pronouncing syllables
nonsense do not say the words
just a singer called szabo singing
the firm text of this performance
singing
what happens that the singer does not have one
melody to follow does not exist like
normally he is used to music
a melodic line a part
pre-established singing is just one
way of inventing music, that’s why
he said that he looks a bit like the blues
in practice to a like a kind of
dishcloth a rough canvas mesh
wide that is made from the canons of the
tradition within this he
can choose the text and can choose
the melodies that personally i
they are better able to communicate and better
his feelings of the moment
or that are better associated with the text
verbal that he is singing is one thing
which is very linked to the world of poetry
improvised and poetry in general in
as the historically tenor singing
also currently can be considered
as an instrument at the service of
poetry all the singers who make sabot
that is, this soloist who intones the
I’m singing people
passionate about poetry and know
by heart
hundreds of different or whole texts
poetics of the oral tradition and also
of the written tradition of Sardinia
and so I am able to time by time
to choose the text to sing and i
other singers ivan behind doing them
the music the accompaniment in fact the
terminology says sing to tenor a
sing only the soloist the others
magnano in what is called
superior or the chorus of
accompaniment and difficult
I checked it then teaching the
conservative and difficult for who it is
used to classical music or say
to current music standards learn
as an adult to sing a tenor because
all of us
in practice we need almost one
musical guide I do not say music
written but at least a melody from
follow to be repeated then when yes
try to learn how to sing tenor when
instead he is used to making more music
it is really complicated to get rid of
these blocks and being able to sing
freely while the boys who
they learn the tenor singing in the
traditions of the various countries do it in
natural way because they acquire first
all the culture of singing the modalities
with which the singing can
express themselves and only after they try to
interpreting it at first imitates i
older singers take from them either
the words of their songs are both
some melodic traits but then slowly
assume a plan then their
personality in the singing that becomes
just a personal form of
poetic musical expression
so I repeat the tenor singing
particularity is that it has no text is
a pre-arranged music every time the
singer the soloist salon chooses the
text to sing and with what kind of
he wants to interpret that
certain text can happen then
that the same text can be
listen to sung both gaballo or lo
we can listen to it as we say
love night the same political text
sung in a duet so different
the same can happen that the song
beauvais dance during the singing the
singer decides to change text too
during singing or from an execution
the other changes completely then
repeats all the musical system of the
savoy and dance however the text is
completely changed then
the association is made in the moment
performance is not a thing
prepackaged pre-established but it is
decided all on the moment so it is part
of what can be said a part of
musical improvisation
there is a lot of interpretative freedom in the
song to tenor that can appear
externally quite flat actually
it is of a huge dynamism because i
other singers who have to follow the
soloist are expected to also understand
all his everything that comes to him
ie head passes through the mind and then
keep changing styles change modes
tonality and you have to keep up with it
so there is a listening and a singing
really together to build music all
all together the tenor is made of
four parts these four parts are
on the lower part the most serious part of the salon
an intermediate part from the point of view
of the Savoy heights that what
we said the solo exam smog e
which instead sings in the most acute register
so from the grave to the cult these are the
four parts of the tenor la
particularity of the content which is that in
practice these four parts if they come
issued with vocal techniques all one
different from the other
and this is the true road
just the strength of the tenor singing is
in this that in the Sardinian tradition the
sardegna has developed a way of doing
music through the voice doing
become the voice itself an instrument e
so on low
I’ll let you hear it
[Music]
[Laughs]
or not
or
to these on a boy’s bass
siniscola a country in the province of
nuoro
we hear the contra
but
bomb
and at the end
we listen will be relevant to the sunred but
light to kimi but that drains
avoid bad
[Music]
so we understand that it is about
put things together enough
different even though musically though
it is from the whole of this that
It comes a very special sound and
original and unique in the world
because it brings these vocals together
so different is that how to say that in which
really have been sedimented so many centuries
they are sedimented in this way of doing
music
another particularity of the canto a tenore is
that there is not a single way to sing in
sardinia is that the tenor singing is
associated with the community to which
the singers belong or if I am
for example of torpè and I sing with i
my friends of thorpe especially in the
public situations is not right
possible that I sing with other singers
of other countries for two reasons
one because I can sing
of course, how do you sing my country?
he took from the boy etcetera but also
if I learned the techniques or styles
of the neighboring country so to speak from
proper point of view of the why and the
as you do tenor you sing tenor
I am held by tradition and by culture
of singing to sing the songs of mine
country as well as others sing i
fields of their country so you will hear
always when it comes to singing
content next to the group name is
always the name of the country of origin
of the group and this is not a fact
random is not because they hold us for
other reasons and why those many
they belong exactly to tradition
of that single community
I’ll make you feel an example of a song
at the mouth of the night I recorded in one
party in the countryside with sad mesto dei
fairly common contexts
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
no
[Music]
no
[Music]
Yes No
[Music]
turns
[Music]
since
of these who love so much love night
or nocturnal singing are sung by gods
endecasyllables verses of tradition
oral or poems written by poets
local or from Sardinian poets known in
this case was of the boys of orunes
who interpreted this song of one
country party you could hear the wind from the
microphone enter the chants from the microphone
that can be done are three types of
so many of the real songs said
the singing arrangements that are nine nights
as I have just told you night song
very used in the serenades boga dance the
song for the accompaniment of dances e
silent the song that accompanies instead to the
improvisation of the verses called the mortgage
or the song, however, different
known of mortgages that are a form
of typically Sardinian poetry of which
it would take another of these
meetings to conclude the singing a
tenor is often seen as a thing of the
past that is like saying revived
today it informs folk about the horizon of this
certainly the tenor singing has roots
deep in the past of Sardinia and
it comes from oral tradition
but it is an absolutely modern song from
an investigation made by the association of the
tenores to which I belong and it turns out
that the craft that we perform say
almost 50 percent of active singers
today he is a student one
craft
which means that it is a song of
young people like all the music of the rest
people who make music do not
professionally but those that do
music for the sake of making music in the
society
they are almost always young
very often young people are passionate
of music and tenor singing has one
prevalence of singers absolutely
young people and even those who are no longer
working students, etc.
they all do different jobs that are done
in Sardinia it is not like in the past
singing of the shepherds certainly the singing of the
shepherds because in the center of Sardinia all
the shepherds were doing today they all do
trades we have singers who are doctors
professional teachers also pastors
or any other to the craft of
artisans and so on and it is a
I will do something that is so alive
a very recent example for me goes from
my country inside the historic center there
crossed the historical center and a
some point I see a rattle of
little boys running
then they stop in a corner waiting
that I passed because they wanted me
one of the elderly singers of the community
they could listen to them were kids
middle school children started
in a corner and sang and immediately
they looked at who will be watching
so oberti I approached for
to say how much this music is alive and the
guys do it with the same
spirit of any other music
thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
I make musicologist letters but in reality
I started when I was 42 years old to study
these things I used to do before
the tenor singer was singing to my country
with friends since I was a kid I
I learned around the age of 14 I was not there
never placed too many problems of why
as it was sung to tenor of all
traditions of Sardinia in the country
same
so I went with the arm with friends is
continued for so many years until then al
This is the conservatory
opportunity for a course of
ethnomusicology and there I joined
attended the course after three years of
a short degree a degree course
short or finished to become so between
quotes titled ethnomusicologist in
reality does not mean anything
But I understood many of the dynamics
concerning traditional music
oral is a bit so I really am
dedicated after studying in particular
the tenor singing tenor chant
of Sardinia, of which it is today
I want to talk to you about it
it is a form of singing
polivocale in which 4 singers generally
of men, men, men, more or less
adults sing of the verses of poems of the
tradition of Sardinia
this song we say it can be
considered as a way to make music
I see it a little like rock and blues
in an obviously Sardinian version like
it works works that there is a soloist that
sings of the verses and three more that singers
that accompany him and putting some verses
or pronouncing syllables
nonsense do not say the words
just a singer called szabo singing
the firm text of this performance
singing
what happens that the singer does not have one
melody to follow does not exist like
normally he is used to music
a melodic line a part
pre-established singing is just one
way of inventing music, that’s why
he said that he looks a bit like the blues
in practice to a like a kind of
dishcloth a rough canvas mesh
wide that is made from the canons of the
tradition within this he
can choose the text and can choose
the melodies that personally i
they are better able to communicate and better
his feelings of the moment
or that are better associated with the text
verbal that he is singing is one thing
which is very linked to the world of poetry
improvised and poetry in general in
as the historically tenor singing
also currently can be considered
as an instrument at the service of
poetry all the singers who make sabot
that is, this soloist who intones the
I’m singing people
passionate about poetry and know
by heart
hundreds of different or whole texts
poetics of the oral tradition and also
of the written tradition of Sardinia
and so I am able to time by time
to choose the text to sing and i
other singers ivan behind doing them
the music the accompaniment in fact the
terminology says sing to tenor a
sing only the soloist the others
magnano in what is called
superior or the chorus of
accompaniment and difficult
I checked it then teaching the
conservative and difficult for who it is
used to classical music or say
to current music standards learn
as an adult to sing a tenor because
all of us
in practice we need almost one
musical guide I do not say music
written but at least a melody from
follow to be repeated then when yes
try to learn how to sing tenor when
instead he is used to making more music
it is really complicated to get rid of
these blocks and being able to sing
freely while the boys who
they learn the tenor singing in the
traditions of the various countries do it in
natural way because they acquire first
all the culture of singing the modalities
with which the singing can
express themselves and only after they try to
interpreting it at first imitates i
older singers take from them either
the words of their songs are both
some melodic traits but then slowly
assume a plan then their
personality in the singing that becomes
just a personal form of
poetic musical expression
so I repeat the tenor singing
particularity is that it has no text is
a pre-arranged music every time the
singer the soloist salon chooses the
text to sing and with what kind of
he wants to interpret that
certain text can happen then
that the same text can be
listen to sung both gaballo or lo
we can listen to it as we say
love night the same political text
sung in a duet so different
the same can happen that the song
beauvais dance during the singing the
singer decides to change text too
during singing or from an execution
the other changes completely then
repeats all the musical system of the
savoy and dance however the text is
completely changed then
the association is made in the moment
performance is not a thing
prepackaged pre-established but it is
decided all on the moment so it is part
of what can be said a part of
musical improvisation
there is a lot of interpretative freedom in the
song to tenor that can appear
externally quite flat actually
it is of a huge dynamism because i
other singers who have to follow the
soloist are expected to also understand
all his everything that comes to him
ie head passes through the mind and then
keep changing styles change modes
tonality and you have to keep up with it
so there is a listening and a singing
really together to build music all
all together the tenor is made of
four parts these four parts are
on the lower part the most serious part of the salon
an intermediate part from the point of view
of the Savoy heights that what
we said the solo exam smog e
which instead sings in the most acute register
so from the grave to the cult these are the
four parts of the tenor la
particularity of the content which is that in
practice these four parts if they come
issued with vocal techniques all one
different from the other
and this is the true road
just the strength of the tenor singing is
in this that in the Sardinian tradition the
sardegna has developed a way of doing
music through the voice doing
become the voice itself an instrument e
so on low
I’ll let you hear it
[Music]
[Laughs]
or not
or
to these on a boy’s bass
siniscola a country in the province of
nuoro
we hear the contra
but
bomb
and at the end
we listen will be relevant to the sunred but
light to kimi but that drains
avoid bad
[Music]
so we understand that it is about
put things together enough
different even though musically though
it is from the whole of this that
It comes a very special sound and
original and unique in the world
because it brings these vocals together
so different is that how to say that in which
really have been sedimented so many centuries
they are sedimented in this way of doing
music
another particularity of the canto a tenore is
that there is not a single way to sing in
sardinia is that the tenor singing is
associated with the community to which
the singers belong or if I am
for example of torpè and I sing with i
my friends of thorpe especially in the
public situations is not right
possible that I sing with other singers
of other countries for two reasons
one because I can sing
of course, how do you sing my country?
he took from the boy etcetera but also
if I learned the techniques or styles
of the neighboring country so to speak from
proper point of view of the why and the
as you do tenor you sing tenor
I am held by tradition and by culture
of singing to sing the songs of mine
country as well as others sing i
fields of their country so you will hear
always when it comes to singing
content next to the group name is
always the name of the country of origin
of the group and this is not a fact
random is not because they hold us for
other reasons and why those many
they belong exactly to tradition
of that single community
I’ll make you feel an example of a song
at the mouth of the night I recorded in one
party in the countryside with sad mesto dei
fairly common contexts
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
no
[Music]
no
[Music]
Yes No
[Music]
turns
[Music]
since
of these who love so much love night
or nocturnal singing are sung by gods
endecasyllables verses of tradition
oral or poems written by poets
local or from Sardinian poets known in
this case was of the boys of orunes
who interpreted this song of one
country party you could hear the wind from the
microphone enter the chants from the microphone
that can be done are three types of
so many of the real songs said
the singing arrangements that are nine nights
as I have just told you night song
very used in the serenades boga dance the
song for the accompaniment of dances e
silent the song that accompanies instead to the
improvisation of the verses called the mortgage
or the song, however, different
known of mortgages that are a form
of typically Sardinian poetry of which
it would take another of these
meetings to conclude the singing a
tenor is often seen as a thing of the
past that is like saying revived
today it informs folk about the horizon of this
certainly the tenor singing has roots
deep in the past of Sardinia and
it comes from oral tradition
but it is an absolutely modern song from
an investigation made by the association of the
tenores to which I belong and it turns out
that the craft that we perform say
almost 50 percent of active singers
today he is a student one
craft
which means that it is a song of
young people like all the music of the rest
people who make music do not
professionally but those that do
music for the sake of making music in the
society
they are almost always young
very often young people are passionate
of music and tenor singing has one
prevalence of singers absolutely
young people and even those who are no longer
working students, etc.
they all do different jobs that are done
in Sardinia it is not like in the past
singing of the shepherds certainly the singing of the
shepherds because in the center of Sardinia all
the shepherds were doing today they all do
trades we have singers who are doctors
professional teachers also pastors
or any other to the craft of
artisans and so on and it is a
I will do something that is so alive
a very recent example for me goes from
my country inside the historic center there
crossed the historical center and a
some point I see a rattle of
little boys running
then they stop in a corner waiting
that I passed because they wanted me
one of the elderly singers of the community
they could listen to them were kids
middle school children started
in a corner and sang and immediately
they looked at who will be watching
so oberti I approached for
to say how much this music is alive and the
guys do it with the same
spirit of any other music
thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
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