Folk Music of Italy, Episode 5: Songs of the Italian Alps (part 1)

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Date recorded: May 5, 1955
Contributor(s): Performer: Lomax, Alan; Broadcaster: BBC
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Track Number: 13
Archive ID: B013
Original ID: T568R01
Note: Discussed in this part: From Friuli, moving eastward to Provence, is the region of polyphony and of various influences from the north. Polyphony from a café in Friuli. Villotte -- lyric love songs are often in quattrains like lullabies. Cividale shepherd quester singing voices are like a German chorus, they use the Arabic friction drum like an (oom-pah) kettle drum. The isolated Slavic colony of Val de Resia, where Carnival is the time for weddings. Choral love songs sung by groups of girls. The Resiana is a figure dance with fiddles. Carnian Alps -- Austrian influence, they speak Ladino. "Ai mangiato un gran di uva." Love songs and more lullabies.
Belongs to: Folk Music of Italy (BBC)
About the session: The Folk Music of Italy was an eight-part series of Italian folk music produced and hosted by Alan Lomax for the BBC's Third Programme. The recordings were made by Lomax during his Italian field trip in 1954 and early 1955; the series was compiled before his return to England in the early spring of 1955.
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