The Performers

The performers had, especially in the past, an important function in the procession of the Candelieri. Them in fact they played during the dance of every of the great candles and they articulated the rhythm of the carriers coordinating the movement of it.

The traditional tools of this demonstration are lu tamburu and lu piffaru. According to the musician Gian Nicola Spanu. The photographic and literary documentation shows that up to not a long time ago nearly all the it Filled they had a couple of performers that it used these two tools, instead the Gremio of the Wayfarers now uses only them. Still in the sixties the Gremio of the Farmers and that of the Tailors were accompanied by performers of pipe, over that of drum, coming from some country of the hinterland of Sassari as Tissi.

Lu tamburu is a drum to bandoleer (that is shoulder) that you/he/she is struck with two wood mallets (them sticks). It deals with a tool attested in the whole Peninsula, especially on the occasion of ceremonial processions. The box is constituted by a brass cylinder or galvanized iron, with two membranes glued around the you look for and extended from of the connecting rods with lacing to form of " Y ".

Lu piffaru that he still used thin to some years ago was an octave flute suited for the abilities of the performer; currently, the Gremio of the Wayfarers " uses a piffaru not readapted instead but on purpose built by an artisan of Sassari making reference to that preexisting (G. N. Spanu, ivi).

The repertoire of the passages for pipe and drum or for alone drum performed during the descent of the Candelieri includes:
Lu passu of the flag, homage to the flag of every of the Filled;
The Countrywoman, that postpones to the music of the gangs of the first one" 900;
Lu Passu of Candareri, that accompanies the transport of the candles from the house of the Obriere up to the Castle Plaza, from which it has beginning the parade;
Baddu Sasdhu.
You performs when the carriers have to make to rotate the candle in a sense and in the other;
Dance - Zigo-Zago. The passage is performed when the carriers effect the long footsteps to zig-zag.

This theme draws to the melody of the traditional Sardinian music.
Rasp. And' a passage performed by the drummer and it plays during a particular figuration coreutica with which the carriers of the Candeliere imitate the movement of the Sardinian dance. Its insertion in the repertoire is very recent (years' 50).

The repertoire etnomusicale of the filled it is composed in total from 15 passages of oral tradition whose use and circumscribed to the festivities of the ancient guilds. This repertoire has recently been object of a cataloguing of a digital recording of Anthony Luiu, for which is seen,: AA.VV.,Sounds and visions of the Candelieri of Sassari, cit., equipped of CD.