Books by Girolamo Garofalo
Chants of the Byzantine Rite: the Italo-Albanian Tradition in Sicily / Canti Ecclesiastici della Tradizione Italo-Albanese in Sicilia, Jul 2016
The volume offers for the first time transcriptions of the full repertory of orally transmitted h... more The volume offers for the first time transcriptions of the full repertory of orally transmitted hymns for the celebration of the Byzantine Rite in Sicily. This little-known chant tradition has without interruption been cultivated by the Albanian-speaking minority in Sicily since their ancestors arrived as refugees from the Balkans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The collection, thus, testifies to the continuation and development of Byzantine chant on the fringe of the historical Byzantine Empire, and it invites for further studies into orality and musical identities.
Girolamo Garofalo, senior researcher in ethnomusicology at the University of Palermo, delivers an introduction to the repertory the actual state of research, making also an account of the few written documents that have been identified (the oldest dating from 1899). Christian Troelsgård, associate professor of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Copenhagen, offers an essay on the importance of this ‘Arbëresh’ chant repertory in the broader perspective of Byzantine chant studies.
The actual transcriber, Bartolomeo Di Salvo (1916–1986), was a Basilian monk and music researcher at Grottaferrata. His transcriptions in staff notation and related documents were found by the editors in archives at Copenhagen, Grottaferrata, and Rome. Di Salvo was born at Piana degli Albanesi, the biggest of the villages in which the tradition is still practised.
An audio CD is included. It contains a selection of sound tracks preserved in the folk music archive of Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome), recorded in the early 1950’es by Ottavio Tiby (1891-1955), one of the pioneers of Italian ethnomusicology. The tracks feature the same singers as those Di Salvo once used as informants, including, however, also a couple of women, who were considered principal carriers of the tradition.
Giuseppe Sanfratello, presently Ph.D. student at the University of Copenhagen, has assisted the editors in compiling the indices and the critical notes for the chants.
Papers by Girolamo Garofalo
Musica Oral Del Sur Revista Internacional I La Musica Y La Danza Del Ciclo Productivo Agrario En La Cuenca Del Mediterraneo Ii La Musica De Al Andalus, 1995
Yearbook for Traditional Music, 1996
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Books by Girolamo Garofalo
Girolamo Garofalo, senior researcher in ethnomusicology at the University of Palermo, delivers an introduction to the repertory the actual state of research, making also an account of the few written documents that have been identified (the oldest dating from 1899). Christian Troelsgård, associate professor of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Copenhagen, offers an essay on the importance of this ‘Arbëresh’ chant repertory in the broader perspective of Byzantine chant studies.
The actual transcriber, Bartolomeo Di Salvo (1916–1986), was a Basilian monk and music researcher at Grottaferrata. His transcriptions in staff notation and related documents were found by the editors in archives at Copenhagen, Grottaferrata, and Rome. Di Salvo was born at Piana degli Albanesi, the biggest of the villages in which the tradition is still practised.
An audio CD is included. It contains a selection of sound tracks preserved in the folk music archive of Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome), recorded in the early 1950’es by Ottavio Tiby (1891-1955), one of the pioneers of Italian ethnomusicology. The tracks feature the same singers as those Di Salvo once used as informants, including, however, also a couple of women, who were considered principal carriers of the tradition.
Giuseppe Sanfratello, presently Ph.D. student at the University of Copenhagen, has assisted the editors in compiling the indices and the critical notes for the chants.
Papers by Girolamo Garofalo
Girolamo Garofalo, senior researcher in ethnomusicology at the University of Palermo, delivers an introduction to the repertory the actual state of research, making also an account of the few written documents that have been identified (the oldest dating from 1899). Christian Troelsgård, associate professor of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Copenhagen, offers an essay on the importance of this ‘Arbëresh’ chant repertory in the broader perspective of Byzantine chant studies.
The actual transcriber, Bartolomeo Di Salvo (1916–1986), was a Basilian monk and music researcher at Grottaferrata. His transcriptions in staff notation and related documents were found by the editors in archives at Copenhagen, Grottaferrata, and Rome. Di Salvo was born at Piana degli Albanesi, the biggest of the villages in which the tradition is still practised.
An audio CD is included. It contains a selection of sound tracks preserved in the folk music archive of Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome), recorded in the early 1950’es by Ottavio Tiby (1891-1955), one of the pioneers of Italian ethnomusicology. The tracks feature the same singers as those Di Salvo once used as informants, including, however, also a couple of women, who were considered principal carriers of the tradition.
Giuseppe Sanfratello, presently Ph.D. student at the University of Copenhagen, has assisted the editors in compiling the indices and the critical notes for the chants.