I Canti del Lazio di Giggi Zanazzo. Per una lettura etnomusicologica

The paper presents a critical review of the collection of folk song texts published by Giggi Zanazzo at the beginning of XX Century. Methodological problems of evaluating historical literary sources transcribed from oral tradition without sound recording are emphasized and discussed. Nevertheless, the author shows how a carefull analysis of the way the texts are transribed (with interesting rendering of the phonetics of the dialect), the metrical forms and the literary themes can highlight significant clues for the ethnomusicological knowledge of the song repertoires and their social context.