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Latitude

44.0184

Longitude

10.4497

Start Date

1992-08-23

End Date

1992-08-23

Varliano (Giuncugnano) 23/8/92 Maggio 'Re Eronte' by compagnia di Piazza al Serchio at the registrazione a Varliano audio tape 2 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. Two extra ariette at end added. This is the same Maggio text and company as LB2-AT9205 and LB2-AT9213. There was no tripod, so LB was helped with videoing by Odelio Tognacchi, old guy from Forte dei Marmi, who had some fairly odd ideas of framing; also lots of wobbles in the picture. Some wind noise with the audio recording - it was impossible to reach the mike during the performance to mute it. Tape 1 contains Stanzas 1-91. Tape 2 contains 97.4-143.5 (side A) and 144.2-end (side B). There are also video files to go with the recording.

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