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Gragnanella 19/7/92 Maggio 'Eronte' by Giuseppe Coltelli, according to the version adopted by the Compagnia dei Maggianti di Piazza al Serchio, audio tape 1 of 2. The Piazza al Serchio company performed regularly throughout the 1990s and early 2000s in the maggio series sponsored by the Centro Tradizioni Popolari della Provincia di Lucca. The text is based on chivalrous themes, and some of its history is traced in Barwick, L. (1994). The Filipino Komedya and the Italian Maggio: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Related Genres of Popular Music Theatre. In A. M. Gibbs (Ed.), Masks of Time: Drama and its Contexts (pp. 71-108). Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Video recordings on video tapes VT9707-VT9709 (Sony Hi-8); audio recordings on AT9205-AT9206. |