CPR Performance Archive

GIVING VOICE 11 - CUNCORDU AND TENORES‘ANTONI MILIA’ DE OROSEI (ITALY) [April 2009]
CANTANDHE OROSEI

FRIDAY 24 APRIL, 6PM

Sardinian singing is one of the most popular polyphonic forms in the Mediterranean, heard throughout the year, in daily life, in the liturgy,on peasants’ holidays, in between the sacred and profane. Cuncordu de Orosei is one of the most foremost groups of Sardinian polyphony, serving a religious function as well as the preservation of a living memory of their village.Orosei, on the east coast, is one of the few villages (with Castelsardo, Cuglieri and Santulussurgiu) where the repertoire has been continuously handed down by oral transmission without interruption.The Sardinian canto a tenore is considered so important that it was added to the list of oral traditions as part of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2008.

The a tenore song is a “polyvocal” form in four voices: oche and mesuvoche (more usually called the boche and falzitu) are joined by a bassu and a cronta. For this concert, Cuncordu de Orosei arrive with the harmonic 'fifth voice', the immaterial quintina.

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