Description
The collection of Trentino songs from the ‘Fondo Valsella’ is the ‘raw material’ that inspired the writing of this volume. In fact, starting in the 1960s, Romano Galvan and Paolo Zanghellini began a passionate documentation project on traditional songs in the Valsugana area, a source that was initially useful for the reworking carried out within the Coro Valsella choir.
The new course of study has developed an initiative to recover, reorganise, catalogue and restore historical recordings, fitting into a space of growing interest and application in Italian ethnomusicology. Furthermore, the close dialogue established with Paolo Zanghellini and other participants in the initiative made it possible to retrace the stages of the past research itinerary and to enhance a testimony that is central to the knowledge of musical traditions in the Trentino region.
Guido Raschieri, ethnomusicologist, is a lecturer at the University of Trento. He has previously taught in Turin, Bologna and Matera and collaborates with Italian and European research institutes. He began his ethnomusicological research in Piedmont, under the guidance of Febo Guizzi, and is one of the founders of the Museo del Paesaggio Sonoro (Museum of Soundscapes) in Riva near Chieri.
Riccardo Caserta, a graduate in Cultural Heritage from the University of Trento, obtained a master’s degree in Musicology from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2018, with an ethnomusicological thesis dedicated to the Txalaparta, a traditional instrument from the Basque Country.
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