SACRED VOICES-Two generations of singing a cuncordu for Holy Week in Cuglieri (Sardinia, Italy)
Original title VOCI DEL SACRO – Due generazioni di canto a cuncordu acca settimana santa di Cuglieri
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In Cuglieri, a small town in Midwest Sardinia, Italy, festivities during the Holy Week are traditionally accompanied by a small choir called a concordu. The choir is composed of four specialised male voices, and they perform the Miserere (psalm 50) and Stabat Mater, both in Latin, and both with highly complex settings. Their tradition which presents an extraordinary musicological interest has been passed on orally, and has miraculously been preserved to the present day. The four elderly singers have been careful to pass on this important patrimony to their sons, and now they are finally able to sing together.
The film presents these two generations of singers during their activities in the three most intense and meaningful days of the Holy Week.
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Author/s Renato Morelli
Born in Trento in 1950, graduated at the local University, he studied music (clarinet at the conservatory Bonporti in Trento), and social sciences.
He made his first ethnological and ethnomusicological researches on the ethno-linguistic minorities of eastern Trentino, “mochena”, of german origin, and “ladina” in Fassa valley, publishing several studies.
Director of the RAI, Italian television, from 1979 to 2007 he directed some sixty ethnographic films on the Alps, Sardinia and Latin America, – a production acknowledged by twenty-one international awards.
From 1992 to 1996 he teached Cultural Anthropology at the Trento University (Department od Sociology), courses on Visual Anthropology. Since 2006 he teaches Ethnomusicology at the Master of the Insubria Univerity, of the conservatory Bonporti in Trento, of the conservatory Monteverdi in Bolzano.
With Roberto Leydi he superintended the set of records ” Canti liturgici popolari italiani”, (Italian liturgical popular songs) (MI, Albatros 1988). He directed with Pietro Sassu the set of records “Musica a memoria – Repertori di tradizione orale” and “ Sardegna – Confraternite delle voci” (UD, Nota).
In 1998 he founded “APTO” (Provincial Collection of Oral Tradition), an informatic data base for the collection and catalogation of oral-audio and video.
He has also produced a number of theatrical productions. Last but not least he works on- , has inspired, directs and personally plays in three musical projects: Ziganoff (Klezmer-jazz), T.T.T. (music from Trentino, Tirol, Transylvania), and Cantori di Vermèil (traditional Alpine choral singing).
For further contacts, filmography, discography and bibliography see: www.renatomorelli.it
Research Renato Morelli – Pietro Sassu
Photography Paolo Carboni, Sara Maino, Stefano Menin, Bice Morelli, Renato Morelli
Sound Livia Morelli
Editing Sara Maino