Sardinian Music

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Language: english


A song by Folk/Pop Singer/Songwriter Enrico Spanu

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Language: Sardinian nuorese


Song written at the beginning of the 20th century.

Lyrics Femminas bellas bandan’a funtana a pienare sas broccas d’aba frisca. B’est cumare Giuanna cun Franzisca, Ippolita Maria e Bustiana. Bandan’a passu a passu a chistionu bestidas de furesi e de colore; faeddana a pianu cun amore e i s’andare issoro est senza sonu. Comente sun isculzas e lezzeras paret ch’appenas tocchen s’istradone, e isparin che bella visione cun grazias distintas e maneras. Ma su profumu de sa carr’issoro frisca e sana, in nares s’est firmadu, e belle pili biancu, addoloradu, sento ch’ancora giovanu est su coro.

Translation Beautiful women go to the fountain they go to fill the jugs of fresh water there is the godmother Giuanna with Franzisca, Ippolita Maria and Bustiana. they go strolling and chatting dressing colorful clothes they speak softly that is so cute their walk does not make noise how they are sweet and soft it seems that they just touch the road as a beautiful vision with grace and good manners but the scent of their skin, healthy and fresh, has remained in my nose although I am now an old man with white hair I still feel young at the heart

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Language: 00.00 Corsican + 03.22 Sardinian

Corsican Face più di quarant'anni Chè tu porti negri panni Strascinend'u to dulore Chì ti svegli'à tutte l'ore U to maritu hè cascatu Bon figliolu bon suldatu Per 'ssa Francia assassina Chì sumena cbè ruvina. Ora tocc'à me a sai Di cunnosce mille guai E in pettu porto dolu Di più d'un bon figliolu Ma u fiume di a rivolta Cresce è mi porta Cun fede patriotta Sin'à l'ultima lotta. Resistenza di pett'à l'oppressore Resistenza per'a vita per l'onore. Fratell'incarcerati Da noi alluntanati Ma più d'un bracciu fieru Svizzerà lu strangeru Ghjuventù sparghji l'ale Di a lotta Naziunale Ricusa tuttu u male Di Francia culuniale. Lingu'assuffucata E cultura spugliata Paesi spupulati Paisan'affannati Eccu lu veranu Ch'elli oghji ci danu Demuci a manu Suminem'u nostru granu. Resistenza di pett'à l'oppressore Resistenza per'a vita per l'onore.

Sardinian Cumpantzos imprijonatos dae nois alluntanatos Odiu e dolore bocamos s'opressore Pesa zoventude de sa lota natziunale Contr'a canes infames de s'Italia coloniale Limba afocata e curtura ispozata Idhas spopulatas zente aganata Custu est su futuru kenze colores Siamos partigianos de custa natzione Resitentzia contr'a s'opressore Resistentzia pro sa vita e pro s'onore Resistentzia contr'a s'opressore Resistentzia pro su fronte e pro s'onore

Translation of the part in Sardinian language Arrested comrades, who were turned away from us hatred and pain, reject the oppressor Youth ready for the national struggle against the infamous dogs of the colonialist Italy language and culture stifled depopulated lands and people [?] this is the future without color we have to be partisans of this nation resistance against the oppressor resistance for life and for the honor resistance for the front and for the honor

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A guitar melody dedicated to Eleanor of Arborea, the most powerful and significant Sardinian medieval judge/queen, as well as the island's most renowned heroine. .

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Language: english

A song by the Indie/Alternative/Psychedelic/Dreampop/Electropop sardinian band Lilies on Mars

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Language: Sardinian logudorese

with english and italian subtitles


with french subtitles


Lyrics

Oh Sardigna custa est s'ora
ke ti deppes iskidare
e sos Sardos totu umpare
si ki pesent in bon'ora

Sa rikesa sunt furande
in d'una manera indigna
e sas costas de Sardigna
de zimentu cuccuzzande

Oh Sardigna Patria nostra
de sa limba t'ant privau
e 'sistoria ant cubau
pro sikire in custa zostra

Una tanca fatta a muru
fatta a s'afferra afferra
si su kelu fit in terra
si l'aiant serradu puru

A sos meres coloniales
aperrieli trumba e fogu
ca non paret prus su logu
pro su ki nos ant fattu heris

Como a Cuba tandho in Vietnam
sos Irlandesos kin sos Bascos
moviebos omines sardos
bos deppiene iskidare

Non prus voto
non prus listas
non prus truffas de eletziones
solu bandas comunistas
pro sa sarda rivolutzione

In su monte et in su pianu
in su pianu et in su monte
e kin s'istendardu in manos
ki est'istadu de su sardu in fronte

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Language: Sardinian nuorese

Sardinian Zente, chi pro seculos as abbrazzadu, sas undas de su mare sas campagnas sididas, sa preda 'e sos nuraghes, su segretu 'e sos buscos. Zente, chi pro seculos as intonadu, poderosos cantos, a sos frores d'eranu, a su sole impiedosu de s'istade, a s'arbure atonzina, a sos gelidos nies de s'iverru. Zente, chi a benujos in terra, as preigadu sa natura avara, dimandende una vida decorosa. Zente de una terra vagabunda, giogada cun sas cartas, da manos de potentes cumandantes. Seculos de fadigas, firmas in sos arrastos de s'istoria! Zente, chi ancora oe ligada in ballu tundu, tesses un'isperanzia de riscattu; e t'isprigas in abbas de cristallu, e bides lugorosos orizzontes, e respiras aeras profumadas. Su ballu isperanzosu, da' secuolos e oe, t'imbriagat sa mente e ti mustrat gagliarda a sa fazze 'e su mundu o zente sarda!

Translation People who for centuries have embraced the waves of the sea the countryside [?] the plunder of the nuraghes the secrets of the woods People who for centuries have sung powerful chants to the flowers of spring to the merciless Sun of summer to the autumn trees to the frozen snowfalls of winter People who knelt praying the stingy nature calling for a decorous life People from a vagrant land the existence of which was decided by treaties signed by arrogant potent (foreigner) hands centuries of toil firms in the paths of history People that is united in the Ballu Tundu yet aspires to the hope of redemption and reflect themselves in the pristine waters and watch shining horizons and breath scented air the hopeful dance, from centuries ago to today, stun your mind shows you valiant in front of the world, Sardinian people!

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This is another polyphonic song written at the beginning of XX century.

Lyrics Garrigu de nieddas temporadas benit s’ierru, bezzu, tristu e canu, e senz’ervas est tristu su pianu sas forestas pàrene brugiadas. Non puzzones c’allegren su manzanu cun sas milli pibias delicadas; su entu muilat intro sas foradas e tristos colvos bolan’a luntanu.

Translation Burdened by black thunderstorms the winter comes, old, sad and hoary the pastures look sad without grass the forests look like burned. there aren't birds that delight the dawns with their sweet chirps only the wind blows in the ravines and dour crows fly away.

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The Sardinian guitar has developed somewhat differently from the classical guitar (itself not standardized until the late 1800s) and presents differences in shape (the size of the “bouts,” which give most modern acoustic guitars their typical hour-glass shape), in tuning (the Sardinian guitar is generally tuned somewhat lower than a classical guitar), and the number of strings (four- and five-stringed guitars are common in addition to the familiar six-stringed instrument).
The guitars usually display characteristic folk painting or other ornamentation. The traditional playing technique employs the thumb to play the main melody while the index and middle fingers play accompaniment. Recently, the use of a plectum (pick) has become common. Song festivals and contests are quite common in the north of the island and singers are judged on their singing as well as on their own guitar accompaniment. Many of the songs are very old folk songs and the presumption is that the songs were around well before the guitar was imported and incorporated to produce a new tradition.

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Language: Sardinian logudorese



Lyrics

Ojos de bellesa rara
nieddos, castanzos et varios,
cun milli modos contrarios
ferint et curant insara

Ojos hermosos divinos
ojos chi soa ojos leant
ojos chi bellesa feant
ojos suaves pelegrinos

Ojos bellos soberanos
chi sas voluntades furant
ojos chi benignos curant
ojos chi occhint tiranos

Ojos bellos costanzinos
cando ferides sanades
cun milli modoe contrarios
ferint et curant insara