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Folklore
Traditional music
and Dances
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 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 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
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 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