Published in "Nonsoloagricoltura" No 1, periodic dell'IPSAA "Livatino" Canicattì, 1999).
The band, to tradition, is a musical ensemble consisting of woodwinds (flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones, horns, cornets, trumpets, trombones , flugel horns, tubas) and percussion (timpani, drums, cymbals and drums) that is usually performed outdoors. It performs music of various kinds and is a popular means of spreading the music. It stands out a civil gang, consisting of government agencies (eg the band of Naro), or rarely by private companies (eg the band of Canicattì), and a military band (ie the bands of the Army).
The origins of the band are to be found in the military music of ancient peoples (barbarians, Romans, etc..) Whose armies were using instrumental groups with different types of trumpets and drums as a means of inciting war.
The first complex of musicians in the band lie in 1200 and were employed by the municipalities and the Italian princely courts, but the first bands in the modern sense were established in Germany between 1300 and 1400 and reached gradually spread through the appearance new tools and refinements to existing ones.
In 1500, troops, like those in France and Switzerland, had attached departments of instrumentalists rigidly organized.
In 1700, the band had a decisive impact in Europe and so many famous composers wrote different music for it. The basis of that development there was the sort of military bands in Germany of Frederick II. In France during the Revolution, the bandwidth of the National Guard was used often in civic celebrations.
nineteenth century, the band had a full flowering (Germany, France, Belgium, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, etc..) And was used in the opera (Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti, Bellini's Norma, Verdi's Don Carlos, etc..) . In Sicily, famous bands and brass bands were formed after ministerial approval and were organized at the municipal and provincial levels. Last Regulation on Bourbon bands was that of April 22, 1841, we have found inserted in a communication-dell'Intenden you count Capaci sottintendenti and addressed to the Mayors, and published in February 1857 on the "Newspaper of the tendency of In-Province Girgenti. This Regulation lays down very strict: the members of the band imposed the obligation to "be part of the town watch the town" where the gang he belonged. Those who contravened Finally, the Regulation was submitted to the decree on 24/11/1827 guards urban. The Regulations, in essence, reflects much the climate established by the police Maniscalco, director of the famous Bourbon police on which the patriot Vincenzo canicattinese Macaluso, a victim of the galleys of the Decadent Bourbon regime, he had harsh words. After several years of stalemate in Italy formed several local bands including that of Canicattì and Rome. The band of Canicattì was founded, according to experts and John Alfonso Trop, in 1868 by master Montelepre and were the first directors and the substitute teacher Ginex Giuseppe Salvatore Russo. Since 1885 the band was in Rome by Alessandro Vessella that composed of 80 musicians divided into families. The Vessella endowed the band's repertoire contains transcripts from a great classical works and his famous compositions. The other Italian municipal bands adapted themselves in time to the successful criteria Vessella.
In Italy, the new century opened with the reorganization of the military bands (1901). In those years Canicattì there was a "private music band, which, as the report cited Tropia brothers, was" subsidized by the municipality. " In Sicily, until the sixties, the band had a decent spread and highly successful public, it is testimony to the following article from a rare magazine, "The friend of bandsman" "The Great Concert Band of St. Stefano di Camastra (Messina) well framed and artistically directed by M. Valente Vincenzo Cecere stronger participation of first class soloists, including the Neapolitan Prof. Salvatore Sarnataro and a huge mass of excellent performers, has run about throughout Sicily everywhere admired for making the behavior and amazed audiences for the faultless of his performances. In this concert will recur next season to the public, under the direction of M. Cecere and with a team of performers selected much more. "
Today the secular tradition of civilian concert band in the public holidays in the town's main square has become extinct and it is a regrettable loss.
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DOCUMENT FOR THE BANDS
(April 22, 1841)
Off a Car. - N. 2032-9 Febbraro
Sottintendenti Gentlemen, and mayors
object is called in compliance with the regulations for the bands
LORD HE Lieutenant General with 7 separate Ministerial Department. Police, car. 1 N. 1272 I wrote the following:
"The Regulation of 22 April 1841 lays down rules for the bands.
However, it has had in place to detect in some province remains in absolute oblivion, with the result that in this part of Real's service along a rule observed by all, we go to measure de 'cases taking or causing the provision that most believed to convenient.
drivers do not seem to further tolerance in uniform due to this service, I remember here innanti the provisions that are contained in that regulation, and I pray you to inculcate the most accurate part of his execution.
Article 1. When after the ministerial authorization is a band composed of all components of this should be part of the town watch the town where the band belongs to all persons receiving their license.
Article 2. The license issued to the head of the gang will be held up the names of all the components of it, with the indication of age and profession of each one and there will be a serial number affixed in accordance with the chronological order of the authorization obtained from each band of the province, having this number starting with the oldest and most complete the most recent.
Article 3. In the event that a band goes from one town to another, the leader must present a police officer, and be recognized, showing a driver's license.
Article 4. Being in the same place more than one band, the oldest will override just the serial number affixed to the license of the head band and as we discussed in the preceding article.
Article 5. When in the same place Siena two bands belonging to different provinces will override the bandwidth of the province where they are.
Article 6. The licenses of individuals making up the band (which will be issued free of charge) will be renewed in each year, which covered the old licenses will be from local police officer sent all'Intendente the province.
Section 7. Whenever you need to make any change of individuals in a band, it can not be without being previously demanded, and obtained permission by the intendant of the province into a paste the new license allowed.
Article 8. Individuals composing the band wanting to dress in a uniform, they can not make other use of the upper approved, the model of which is found at the Intendant of the province respectively.
Article 9. The band will not travel to other nearby province Although it was without the permission of the Internal their province, and one in which plan to travel.
Article 10. Where individuals are part of the band under the age of 21 they will be recorded as the end of memory 'of the town watch piedilista to make a likeness of the other part subitoché touch the twenty-first year.
Article 11. The controventori to what is prescribed in this regulation will lose the right to join the band in addition to the penis, as the case-wove some merit, in accordance with what is prescribed by Order of November 24, 1827 on the guards Urban .
And I have participated in the SS. LL. for strict compliance. The director
COUNT CAPACITY
The Secretary General Philip
Minolfi
N.B. - Alcune raccolte del “Giornale della Intendenza della Provincia di Girgenti” si possono consultare presso l’Archivio comunale di Canicattì annesso alla Biblioteca comunale.
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LE PAGINE DI NONSOLOAGRICOLTURA
Salvatore Vaiana
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