Sicily: Music for the Holy Week/ Various - Sicily: Music for the Holy Week Condition:New Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) was the

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) was the most significant Italian composer of the first half of the nineteenth century

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Sicily: Music for the Holy Week/ Various - Sicily: Music for the Holy Week Condition:New Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) was theDuring Holy Week, proceeding Easter, many Sicilian villages celebrate with costumed processions through the streets. Often accompanied by music on themes of the Passion, these popular parade ceremonies have roots in agrarian pre Christian rites. The songs are mostly sung in distorted Latin, though some are in Italian, and feature a polyphonic structure and choral style with soloing. Some of the songs included on this album are derivations of ancient