The Italian Cantastorie - for iPad/Mac/PC

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Italians are world renowned as passionate people, and their passion feeds through to their music and story telling. This album explores the tradition of the Cantastorie - the Italian Storyteller. Cantastorie Mauro Geraci explains the intricacies of the music, the paintings, the instruments and the drama of the performance. This material is drawn from The Open University course AA317, Words and music.

  1. 03/08/2010

    The Italian Cantastorie

    A short introduction to this album

  2. 03/08/2010

    Transcript -- The Italian Cantastorie

    Transcript -- A short introduction to this album

  3. 03/27/2009 ·  Video

    The Art of the Cantastorie

    Mauro Geraci tells us what a cantastorie is and what skills do these artists have.

  4. 03/27/2009

    Transcript -- The Art of the Cantastorie

    Transcript -- Mauro Geraci tells us what a cantastorie is and what skills do these artists have.

  5. 03/27/2009 ·  Video

    The Storytellers' Performance

    What the performance involves. Where do cantastories perform, and why?

  6. 03/27/2009

    Transcript -- The Storytellers' Performance

    Transcript -- What the performance involves. Where do cantastories perform, and why?

  7. 03/27/2009 ·  Video

    Mediation and Detachment

    How the cantastorie engages with the audience, and how the lyrics relate to the images in the posters.

  8. 03/27/2009

    Transcript -- Mediation and Detachment

    Transcript -- How the cantastorie engages with the audience, and how the lyrics relate to the images in the posters.

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Italians are world renowned as passionate people, and their passion feeds through to their music and story telling. This album explores the tradition of the Cantastorie - the Italian Storyteller. Cantastorie Mauro Geraci explains the intricacies of the music, the paintings, the instruments and the drama of the performance. This material is drawn from The Open University course AA317, Words and music.

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