Tenores de Aterúe - Gosos di Santu Gavinu - Sardinian Song

Tenores de Aterúe is a quartet of Americans who sing traditional Sardinian, Corsican, Italian, and other Mediterranean songs. We are especially infatuated with Sardinian cantu a tenore singing. The singers are Doug Paisley (oche), Gideon Crevoshay (mesu oche), Carl Linich (contra), and Avery Book (bassu). This is a sacred hymn to St. Gavin the Martyr, which we learned from the repertoire of the Tenores di Oniferi. On October 25, 303 AD, Gavin was martyred in Porto Torres, Sardinia, having been tortured under Diocletian for refusing to renounce his Christianity. St. Gavin is the patron saint of the town of Oniferi.

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• Americans
• Sardinian
• Aterue
• Altrove
• cantu
• tenore
• quartet
• Sardinia

[MillenniumBug94]

you are good but not good to copy the traditional look forward to a response

[kavkasia]

@MillenniumBug94 I'm not sure I understand your comment - are you saying we should not sing this song?

[MyAlisa86]

complimenti!!!!  vedere che in tutto il mondo apprezzano la nostra musica e provano a cantarla (anche bene) è un onore per noi Sardi, ci rende ancora una volta orgogliosi della nostra terra e delle nostre tradizioni.

Grazie di cuore

[paolocusinu]

Anyway you guys choosed a pretty nice Gosos song, well done!

Well, please correct: SanTU Gavinu in Sardinian (or San Gavino in Italian).

if you need any advice let me know with a message...

[paolocusinu]

Here, the mesuoghe (or mesu vocche) is sometimes not enough loud.

Typically it should go with the others, even though recently people think it is better a little louder than su basciu e sa contra. So try to grow "stronger" on this side.

Also it sounds like in the towns where su basciu e sa contra are similar to polyfonic choir/chorus, not exactly as in Oniferi where the two are very different from chorus/choir but they sound fine, even though.

[paolocusinu]

Hi, the voice has a good pronounciation more or less and the right sound to sing in a Tenore. Only please change:

Tottus pregadE -> You guys say E, instead it is a like Los AngELEs...

SardEgna -> instead HERE it is an E, you instead say SardEgna as Angeles which is Italian, not Sardinian. Sardinian is like an E.

but you guys seem fairly good.

Next thing remember the hand at the mouth, or the fingers at the EAR, look to the pictures around. That is the typical position for the Tenore.

[firevile]

da oniferese garantisco che non è una cosa esattamente semplice questo canto....giù il cappello....bravi veramente:)

[MrGioele97]

complimenti veramente...

[iskintidda]

complimenti ... bravissimi!!

[Barroilion]

come sentire i tenores di bitti fare un barber quartet...

non ci sta...

le voci sono dritte senza inflessioni senza ricami...

un tentativo apprezzabile ma non di ottimo risultato

[Onieresu86]

@spassiapopulos non credo assolutamente che i canti di bitti e oniferi siano dalla facile eseguzione...o tantomeno piu facili di su turturinu di orosei.....ma per niente...

[KrazyKotik]

Hi there... I got to this page by sheer luck. I'm from Sardinia, and lived in US for some years. Gee,I wished I could be still there to shake your hands in person. Take care and keep going...