Folklore Traditional music and Dances Folklore The Legend

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Folklore Traditional music and Dances

Folklore Traditional music and Dances

Folklore The Legend of the birth of Rome & The Legend of Pope Joan

Folklore The Legend of the birth of Rome & The Legend of Pope Joan (the first woman Pope)

The Legend of the birth of Rome Romulus (753 -715 BC) is the name

The Legend of the birth of Rome Romulus (753 -715 BC) is the name of the legendary founder of Rome, twin brother of Remus, both sons of Mars and Rhea Silvia (daughter of the king of Alba Longa, Numitore). At their birth, his uncle Amulius ordered them to be thrown into the Tiber, but the servant charged with killing two brothers, he lacked the courage to make such a serious and shameful crime, so put them in a wicker basket abandoning them, then, to waters of the Tiber in the hope that someone will save them. Were saved and suckled by a she-wolf. The pastor and his wife Faustolo Laurent, found them in the woods while the she-wolf suckled took and bred them. As adults, they knew their history and deposed Romulus usurping uncle, returning to the throne Numitore that for gratitude made their gift of a piece of land on the Palatine Hill, not far from the place where the shepherd had found them. The twins decided to found a new city, according to tradition was April 21 753 BC

The Legend of Pope Joan Legend has it that: a young English woman, driven

The Legend of Pope Joan Legend has it that: a young English woman, driven by reasons of intellect (the study, closed to women) and / or "alcove" (in full freedom to follow her lover), he feigned a monaco, Johannes Anglicus, and completed his studies in Mainz. Came to Rome, was noted for the brilliance of his mind, so that, at a time when the election of the popes were often impromptu, on the death of Leo IV, in the year 855, was elected pope and assumed the name of John VIII. Being sexually active, she became pregnant. In the year 857, then, while attending the solemn Easter procession, from the Lateran to St. Peter, was seized by labor pains, dramatically revealing its true nature. The continuation, or ending, is told in many ways. 1) He died in childbirth. 2) was stoned to death (or in pieces) from the angry mob. 3) was tied to the tail of a horse and dragged through the streets of Rome until he died crashed. In the versions that include a fatal ending, natural or not, the baby died with her.

Traditional music and Dances Pizzica Tarantata & Neapolitan Tarantella

Traditional music and Dances Pizzica Tarantata & Neapolitan Tarantella

Pizzica The "Pizzica" derives its origins from the ancient dance of therapeutic Tarantismo when

Pizzica The "Pizzica" derives its origins from the ancient dance of therapeutic Tarantismo when women salting, "bitten by the tarantula" in the summer harvest, were in the grip of a malaise that included abdominal pain, palpitations and sweating, all accompanied by a state of trance that made her squirm on themselves and made them crawl on the ground so absurd. To heal her family called the players that played continuously for days pizziche to chase away the tarantula from the woman's body. The tarantate fact, when they heard the first notes turned in their twisted dance steps, dancing tirelessly for hours to fall to the ground helpless, but as soon regain his strength here is that they got up and resumed their frenzied dance. From this comes the frenzied dance Pizzica Tarantata made of twists and turns of pace and relentlessly following the increased pace of the drums in a dance that brings the dancers use every ounce of their strength, until the legs hold up to dance without respite until dawn. Video of Pizzica

Neapolitan Tarantella The name "Tarantella"comes from Taranto, in particular the Neapolitan tarantella is born

Neapolitan Tarantella The name "Tarantella"comes from Taranto, in particular the Neapolitan tarantella is born in the eighteenth century, when there is an involution and tarantismo crisis. The latter in the Naples area loses its symbolic value and become dance. The instruments: The Neapolitan tarantella has wind instruments, string and percussion in the tradition but Tarantino introduces native folk instruments like the castanets. Gestures: the positions are marked by precise phases: standing, falling to the ground and ground movements in other figures and complicated steps (salto. wheel, turned, approaching, final embrace. ) The song: The Neapolitan tarantella is accompanied by songs that have a core erotic-sexual. Video of Neapolitan Tarantella

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