The San Diego State University School of Music and Dance and the Center for World Music presents an evening of traditional and modern Italian music:
Music?ntica focuses mainly on the music from Southern Italy?s oral tradition while simultaneously reaching for a more contemporary musical style best described as Mediterranean World Music. Oral tradition refers to music, poetry, and ritual passed on from generation to generation by untrained musicians, in this case belonging to lesser known segments of Italian society, such as peasants, fishermen, or street vendors. Music?ntica finds a remarkable freshness in traditional music and believes in its contemporary continuation despite attempts by Italian artists to confine it to frozen tradition or misuse it in popular music renditions. Music?ntica believes continuity is possible because each musical process in time is historical, part of a continuous discourse between current innovation and past sedimentation. The repertoire includes both traditional and original compositions. Several of the instruments used by Music?ntica are native Italian. These include the tamburieddhru, a frame drum used for the pizzica tarantata dance; the putip?, a friction drum; the chitarra battente, a 10 - string guitar from the Renaissance era; percussion such as castanets, animal jingle collars, sheep copper bells; the benas, a single and double Sardinian reed clarinet, and the marranzanu, or mouth harp. Other instruments used include classical guitars, the mandolin, the mandola, the Greek bouzouki, the Arab oud, the harmonica, the fina (a lamellaphone created by Enzo Fina), and several other homemade instruments.
Admission/Cost: $15 (general); $12 (student)
Location:
Smith Recital Hall/Music Building, SDSU
5500 Campanille Dr.
San Diego, CA 92182
Monday, March 3 - 6:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.centerforworldmusic.org
Music?ntica focuses mainly on the music from Southern Italy?s oral tradition while simultaneously reaching for a more contemporary musical style best described as Mediterranean World Music. Oral tradition refers to music, poetry, and ritual passed on from generation to generation by untrained musicians, in this case belonging to lesser known segments of Italian society, such as peasants, fishermen, or street vendors. Music?ntica finds a remarkable freshness in traditional music and believes in its contemporary continuation despite attempts by Italian artists to confine it to frozen tradition or misuse it in popular music renditions. Music?ntica believes continuity is possible because each musical process in time is historical, part of a continuous discourse between current innovation and past sedimentation. The repertoire includes both traditional and original compositions. Several of the instruments used by Music?ntica are native Italian. These include the tamburieddhru, a frame drum used for the pizzica tarantata dance; the putip?, a friction drum; the chitarra battente, a 10 - string guitar from the Renaissance era; percussion such as castanets, animal jingle collars, sheep copper bells; the benas, a single and double Sardinian reed clarinet, and the marranzanu, or mouth harp. Other instruments used include classical guitars, the mandolin, the mandola, the Greek bouzouki, the Arab oud, the harmonica, the fina (a lamellaphone created by Enzo Fina), and several other homemade instruments.
Admission/Cost: $15 (general); $12 (student)
Location:
Smith Recital Hall/Music Building, SDSU
5500 Campanille Dr.
San Diego, CA 92182
Monday, March 3 - 6:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.centerforworldmusic.org
