The Italian Cantastorie - for iPod/iPhone
by The Open University
Italians are world renowned as passionate people, and their passion feeds through to their music and story telling. This album explores the tradition of the Cantastorie - the Italian Storyteller. Cantastorie Mauro Geraci explains the intricacies of the music, the paintings, the instruments and the drama of the performance. This material is drawn from The Open University course AA317, Words and music.
Episodes
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The Italian Cantastorie
A short introduction to this album
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The Art of the Cantastorie
Mauro Geraci tells us what a cantastorie is and what skills do these artists have.
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The Storytellers' Performance
What the performance involves. Where do cantastories perform, and why?
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Mediation and Detachment
How the cantastorie engages with the audience, and how the lyrics relate to the images in the posters.
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The Cartellone, the Lyrics and their Musical Setting
The importance of the cartellone (the poster) - it's function, and how it helps the cantastorie tell a story.
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Storie and Ballate
How the stories of the cantasorie are structured.
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Poetic and Musical Form
How individual cantasorie's can communicate a story in different ways.
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The Guitar
The relationship between the cantasorie and his guitar - how the guitar can add, or take away from a story.
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Antunellu Missinisi- Performance
Mauro Geraci performs Antunellu Missinisi, the story of Anonello a young artist in 15th Century Italy.
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Il conto paro – performance
Mauro Geraci performs Il Conto Paro, a story about modern times, focusing on the London bombings and the G8 summit.
About this show
Italians are world renowned as passionate people, and their passion feeds through to their music and story telling. This album explores the tradition of the Cantastorie - the Italian Storyteller. Cantastorie Mauro Geraci explains the intricacies of the music, the paintings, the instruments and the drama of the performance. This material is drawn from The Open University course AA317, Words and music.
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