MUSIC AND REVELRY IN SICILY!

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Join us for ItaliaMandolin/ Guitar and Italian Folk Music workshops 

                                     June 30- July 10, 2016

 Master Classes and Workshops:
​- Classical Guitar Studies​

-Ensemble and Chamber Music with Guitar / Mandolin​ 

-Guitar Composition

-Italian Traditional Folk Music

- Mandolin Repertoire  (Classical, Italian Traditional and Brazilian Choro)

- Traditional Southern Italian Folk Music, Renaissance Neapolitan Villanelle and Italian Folk Music• Based on the author’s books Traditional Southern Italian Mandolin and Fiddle Tunes, and Italian Folk Music for Mandolin, published by Mel Bay Publications. This workshop is offered to intermediate, professional musicians and all those interested in learning more about traditional Southern Italian folk music. A hands on workshop that includes the historical background on the music, techniques and repertoire of the songs, ballads, serenades, Neapolitan villanelle and authentic tarantella and pizzica music used to cure the “bite of the tarantula” also known as “morso d’amore” (the “bite “of love).​
• Ensemble playing, together with historical and technical information based on the first and foremost comprehensive mandolin books Traditional Southern Italian Mandolin and Fiddle Tunes and Italian Folk Music for Mandolin, by John La Barbera (Mel Bay Publications) focusing on traditional Southern Italian folk music and Italian Folk music styles from various regions.​
• For beginners and professional musicians who want to expand their repertoire of Italian folk music.​
• Playing Southern Italian folk music styles including Pizzica & Tarantella and the 16th century Neapolitan Villanelle.​
• Accompaniment styles for guitar.​
• Mandolin techniques with preparatory technical studies, the student will learn the Italian style of tremolo, picking, and rhythms that accentuate the music.

 

                                The Chitarra Battente
 

The first 5 course metal string guitar is an original Italian instrument and ancestor of the first steel string guitar. Created in the 16th Century, it was played as a strumming guitar to accompany song and dance. It’s distinct percussive and tonal quality can be heard in the tarantellas and laments of Puglia and Calabria, where it has survived for over 500 years and is still in great demand today. This lecture focuses on ways to adapt the sounds and songs from the regions where it is popular and ways to adapt its technique to a regular acoustic guitar. The battente technique combines original 16th century rasqueado and strumming patterns, which coincide with the frame drum to give the correct accents.