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Traditional music Italian Folk/traditional Songs (also in dialects) and Dances

Pátria Minas - Marcus Viana e Paula Fernandes

 
Duarte said:
Pátria Minas - Marcus Viana e Paula Fernandes

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the last part of the Brazilian song is almost a Pizzica Salentina :good_job: :cool-v:
 
Salento Finibus Terrae
... end of the Land

... though, imho is the beginning :)


 
Salento said:
Salento Finibus Terrae
... end of the Land

... though, imho is the beginning :)


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I love the video of the landscapes. Excellent.

As to the dancing, the older couples are so much more elegant, and even, I think, sexier. I believe it's bkz the younger couples, especially the women, are showing off their dancing, their bodies etc., and so the focus is outward, toward the crowd, not toward each other. Even the men are guilty of that. It's the first thing they teach you when you take tango lessons, another very sensuous and even "sexual" dance, in that case: look into each other's eyes; the tension has to be between you two; there's no one else in the room.
 
Agapimou Fidela Protini - my true love
... in Griko (Grecìa Salentina - Magna Graecia)

notice some of the old maps; Calabria was called Italia and Salento was Calabria :)


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... some scholars say the Griko is Medieval, but others say it was passed down by Magna Grecia.

If the scholars cannot agree, maybe it's a combination of the two,

... some say that the Medieval Greeks went to live in the Griko towns where a form of Ancient Greek was still spoken.

 
In the Land of the Vikings ... the Taranta bites:


 
Beddh(r)a ci dormi
Diodato (... the 2020 Sanremo Winner)
... in Leccese:

 
La Zitella
Single Lady



Single Ladies
Le Zitelle :grin:

 
Famous Italian anti-war folk song: Gorizia tu sei maladetta with English subtitles



Anna Magnani singing a famous Neapolitan World War I song in a soldiers' hospital ward. Massimo Ranieri is playing the guitar.
[h=2]The Soldier in Love-written by a soldier at the front in World War I[/h]You are far away from this heart
I fly to you in my mind
I hope and want nothing more
than always keeping you by my side!
Are you sure about this love
As I am sure that I love you


Oh life, oh my life...
Oh heart of this heart...
You were the first love...
and the first and last you will be for me!


How many nights have I not seen you
not felt you in my arms,
not kissed your face,
not held you tight in my arms?!
But, waking from these dreams,
you make me cry for you...


Oh life, oh my life...
Oh heart of this heart...
You were the first love...
and the first and last you will be for me!


Write forever and be happy:
I can only think of you...
One thought comforts me,
you only think of me...
The most beautiful woman in the world,
is never more beautiful than you!


Oh life, oh my life...
Oh heart of this heart...
You were the first love...
and the first and last you will be for me!


Oh life, oh my life...
Oh heart of this heart...
You were the first love...
and the first and last you will be for me!


Oh life, oh my life...
Oh heart of this heart...
You were the first love...
and the first and last you will be for me!


Magnani turns it into an anti-war song just with her performance. She was a genius.


The Massimo Ranieri version in his native Napoli-the way it was normally sung. He's wonderful too.
 
Heartbeat (... Texas)
... nu palpitu te core:

 
Heartbeat (original)

 
every culture has its drinking song / stornelli (personalized story telling song)
... usually sung at the end of an event:

... I would like to thank this Masseria (Farm / Estate), now I will sing you the Cuccurucù ... :)


cuccurucú = ... birds chirping, I think.
 
Pizzica di San Vito


... I miss my people :)
 
Canuscu ‘na Carusa / I know a Girl

 
Salento said:
Canuscu ‘na Carusa / I know a Girl

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The young dancer with the beard is one of the best pizzica dancers I've ever seen; absolutely precise, nimble, and an incredible sense of rhythm along with amazing grace. I always really enjoy videos of him performing. Makes me quite take my eyes off the female dancers. :)

I'm almost certain this is also him.

How beautiful they are...

 
Angela said:
The young dancer with the beard is one of the best pizzica dancers I've ever seen; absolutely precise, nimble, and an incredible sense of rhythm along with amazing grace. I always really enjoy videos of him performing. Makes me quite take my eyes off the female dancers. :)

I'm almost certain this is also him.

How beautiful they are...

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We are beautiful too :)
I was at a wedding last Saturday, … got excellent remarks on my dance moves, … lol
 
Speaking of beautiful, not exactly "Italian" folk, but sung by Milva, an Italian singer, in Italian, and danced by two gorgeous dancers. Wish I knew their names so I could follow them.

 
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