Benefits of choral singing: Alcamese music (Sicily) in apocryphal gospels

• Autores: M. S. Messana
• Localización: Edunovatic 2019 conference proceedings: 4th Virtual International Conference on Education, Innovation and ICT: 18-19 December, 2019, 2019, ISBN 978-84-09-19568-8, pág. 645
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Is it possible to cure the human soul through education in music and singing? What additional benefits does execution and choral concentration bring? What are Apocryphal Gospels? What role does Alcamese music play in this? To answer to all these questions that turn around my research, I go back to my childhood, because everything starts right in my past. I still remember the voice of my grandmother Vincenzina and her sisters while they were singing lyrics in Sicilian dialect, where the characters were Lu Bammineddu (the Child Jesus), La Marinnuzza (Maria, the Mother), San Giusippuzzo (St. Joseph, putative father of Jesus), St. Annuzza and St. Jachinu (St. Anne and St. Joachim, the grandparents of Jesus). Lyrically and melodies from Alcamo, popular especially in the first decades of the twentieth century, handed down orally and that for seven years, with care and great patience, that I’m reconstructing word by word, note by note. The texts taken from the “Apocryphal Gospels” (the books unrecognized canonical from the Catholic Curch that talk so much about the childhood of the Virgin and of Jesus and melodies) are chanting of easy intonation. I experimented it for more then ten years with the chorus of Alcamo named “Francesca Adragna”, born from the courage of a mother, the teacher Rosetta Ingrao that to remember the daughter Francesca, died suddenly in her sleep at the age of 27, has created a particular Choral Group. The singers know the music, they have different ages (from 7 to 90 years) and different social backgrounds. The choristers have in common the suffering: loneliness, poverty, depression, adaptation problems, relational problems. Through the choir song and in particular with the execution of popular songs from Alcamo they have developed self-confidence and they have cured their souls and their suffering. Self-esteem and gratification have come forward, but in particular the pleasure to stay together. The rediscovery of songs belonging to his native parse, to the Christian traditions linked to the apocryphal gospels, has simplified the teaching of singing and aesthetics and it has favored the intonation and the memorization.