mbɪ:mˈbɔʔm: l’accompagnamento vocale nel canto a tenore

The thesis deals with the atenoresinging, a male polyphonic genre belonging to the Sardinian oral traditions, and particularly with the vocal style used by the three singers of the atenorechoir (named bassu, contra andmesu boghe) that accompany the solo voice (namedboghe). The singers generally use different nonsense syllables to make their accompaniment. These syllables, along with their particular pronunciation which involves special vocal devices and laryngeal tension, are considered one of the typical expressive traits of the traditional village styles.The topic has been dealt with here by adopting a twofold perspective: on one hand, by analyzing a corpus of recordings using instrumental procedures which allow a close view of the characteristics of thetenorevocal styles and point out differences between speech and singing, within the conceptual and methodological framework of acoustic phonetics; on the other hand, by exploring the ideas and the practices of the singers through fieldwork and by means of a dialogic approach, within the research paradigm of ethnomusicology.