Giovanna Marini

Giovanna Marini is a musician, Chanteuse, enquiring in Ethnomusicologie, Italian. Its protean activity did of it one of the most important figures in the fields of the Recherche and the execution of the popular musical tradition Italian, but it is also auteure of Chanson S of its clean composition.

It was born on January 19th, 1937 with Rome in a family from musicians.

Formation

The academy

In 1959, it obtains its diploma in traditional guitar with the Conservatoire Holy-Cecile of Rome then improves its training and its practice with the largest traditional guitarist then alive, Andrès Segovia. In same time it is devoted to the study and the practice of string instruments antique as the Luth of which it plays within Concentus Antiqui of maestro Quaranta.

The songs are not in the books

At the end of 1959, at the beginning of 1960, Giovanna Marini meet the largest intellectuals specialists in the Italian popular tradition, among which are detached Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose meeting will be told by Giovanna Marini in unforgettable and moving recording which remains one of best descriptions of the character and the way of being of Pasolini) or Italo Calvino (also author in its turn of texts of songs for Cantacronache ). It is the discovery of the social song, or what, according to a definition of probably Giovanna itself, one starts to define as the sung oral history, in the direction of popular recording of the historical events, by means of the privileged instrument of the song of anonymous composition and oral transmission (still activates in Italy of the Sixties and a company which, of typically rural, radically transformed into urban company industrialo- ).

Research

While taking part in spectacles, it crosses the Péninsule from top to bottom and collects an infinite mass of popular songs in Italian Langue and in different the Dialecte S and regional languages. It will be the material founder of the '' Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano '', with which Giovanna Marini occurs beside the groups formed by the largest Italian interpreters of the political news song, like Giovanna Daffini, a " singer paysanne" from which Marini learns the vocal emission particular and the repertory. She also collaborates with the famous poet in language Sarde Peppino Marotto, of which she learns art from the impromptu Narration popular.

The writing

Giovanna Marini becomes a pillar of the Institute Ernesto De Martino, where it will catalog the enormous quantity of popular songs discovered and for which it even manages to create a particular system of musical Notation. It is a true work of transcription of the memory, thus allowing its transposition for the scene. It finally will find within the popular School of music of Testaccio of the musicians with whom to play and for which it writes " large veined the impazzita " (1979). She faces then the writing for instruments and voice with " It regalo dell' imperatore " (1983) and " Requiem " (1985). For the bicentenary of the French revolution in 1989, it puts in music the Universal declaration of the human rights.

Teaching

In 1974, the popular School of music of Testaccio in Rome entrusts the pulpit of ethnomusicology applied to him, thus stressing the extreme importance of Giovanna Marini as enquiring in this field. From 1991 to 2000, it will be also titular of this same pulpit within the Université Paris VIII - Holy Denis. With its Roman and Parisian pupils, it will achieve study trips to listen to and transcribe the songs of oral tradition still present in Italy at the time of the Religious holidays and Profane S.

Restitution

In 1964, it takes part, in Spoleto, the spectacle " Bleated ciao " who remains engraved in the memories to have caused scandals and made indignant reactions of the public. The activity of Giovanna Marini continues with spectacles and initiatives which illustrate the history of the collection of the Italian popular traditions, like " Ci ragiono E canto " (1965), directed by Dario Fo. It also starts to compose of long Ballade S (more exactly of the Cantate S) in which it tells its experiment and that it only interprets in scene, being accompanied exclusively with the guitar. Are born thus " VI parlo dell' America " (1965) and other compositions to arrive until l'" Eroe " (1974). In 2002, it engraves, with Francesco De Gregori, the album " It fischio LED vapore " who obtains a success of sale without precedent and finally makes know his name with the general public. It has more than forty years. In 2004, it puts in music the " Ballata LED carcere di Reading " and the " De profundis " of Oscar Wilde. In 2005, for the Angelica Festival of Modern music, it composes the music on the text of Pasolini " the ceneri di Gramsci " who will be carried out by the Arcanto heart of Bologna and who will be published with the disc in 2006 pennies the title " the ceneri di Gramsci - Oratorio with several voices - song of oral tradition to the Madrigal of author ".

The vocal quartet

In 1976, it founds its Quatuor Vocal, for which it writes cantatas, of " Correvano coi carri " (1977), to arrive at " Sibemolle " and with the " Cantata LED secolo breve " (inspired by the historical work of Eric Hobsbawm) presented to the theater of Vidy with Lausanne in 2001.

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Discography

Catalog of films

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