The ethnomusicologist Mark Lutzu and director Francesco Casu have edited the first multimedia encyclopedia that brings together the best of traditional Sardinian music.

It consists of 16 volumes, 9 DVD and 7 original CD and is organized by themes and repertoires: tenor singing, singing monophonic, polyphonic songs, polyphonic choirs, singing guitar, improvised poetry, musical instruments, launeddas, music and religion.

The work, is probably needless to say, is an attempt not only to inject more contemporary idioms in research, but also a chance to demonstrate outside the specialist environments an unparalleled cultural heritage that, certainly in terms of complexity but also for lack of interest, continues to remain isolated in Sardinia. This is despite many exceptional artists – among which Elena Ledda Gavino Murgia and the late Andrea Parodi – found beautiful solutions, most effective and developable those proposed by musicians from other regions, in the encounter with more modern sounds and styles.

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