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Coro di Neoneli

image of Coro di Neoneli The old sounds of Sardinia

Famous anthropologists have been trying for a long time, to find the certain origin of the " canto a tenore", without succeeding in it. Yet it is probably right assumed that the "canto a tenore" was born of timbres that reproduced the sounds of Sardinia: bleats, bellows, calls, wistles, etc. This way of singing, sole in the world in the way, in existence only in Sardinia, in ancient times was probably in a large part of the island, but it keeps vital and alive only in its inland, in Barbagia and its neighborhood. Also at Neoneli, a little village in the district of Oristano, bordering on Barbagia and Mandrolisai, the "canto a tenore" was very practiced during convivial and joyous occasions.

Since the Chorus of Neoneli can rely on a great number of singing modules, it's the only one among the "cori a tenore " able to give extremely varied concerts about two hours. The concerts of the Chorus of Neoneli provides traditional texts but above all texts composed by the group itself and dealing with different subjects: pyromania and environment, drugs, old age and childhood, love, emigration.