The Alan Lomax collection: Italian treasury/Abruzzo (1954)

Courtesy of Zirudela
“Love begins with fine singing,” says a line from a song from Abruzzo, a mountainous region of independent people in south-central Italy. Choral songs, a shepherd’s leave-taking, holiday and alms-seeking rites, songs for work and courtship, lullabies, a nonsense incantation, funeral laments, narrative ballads, and dance music vividly evoke a vanishing rural life when everyday activity was accompanied by song
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01 Saltarella ° Liborio Garanfa, Giuseppe Gavati & chorus 2.25
02 La montanara 2.35
03 Lu sand'Andone 1.40
04 Nu giorno andavo a spasso 4.20
05 Il grillo e la formica 1.52
06 Funeral lament 1.49
07 Scura maie ° Liborio Garanfa & Giuseppe Gavati 5.15
08 Lu cenciaru 4.11
09 Ninna nanna 5.37
10 Maitinata 1.23
11 Venite adoremus 1.41
12 Maria Rosa 1.32
13 La partenza del pastore ° Liborio Garanfa & Giuseppe Gavati 7.06
14 Serenade 2.07
15 Ninna nanna 2.55
16 Filastrocca 0.43
17 O ninnella 2.42
18 Maitinata ° Pasqua Anadeo 0.41
19 Maitinata 1.43
20 Simone 3.49
21 La mamma di rosina 4.06
22 Funeral lament ° Grazia Moretti 1.18
23 Reaping song 3.47
24 Teneva na palummella ° Iolanda Tuccella & group 1.10
25 Quadriglia ° Liborio Garanfa & Giuseppe Gavati 3.28
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where not otherwise stated performers are unidentified
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2001 • Rounder records 1811
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