The movies

1. Les Âmes fortes (The Strong Souls)
2. Le gendarme se marie (The Policeman Get Married)
3. Going back to Nissa la Bèla
4. Lignes de partage (Lines of division)
5. Le Secret des femmes (The Secret of Women)
6. The Sun also Rises

Traditional music from County of Nice and Provence has served as background music in some cinema or video or TV movies and documentaries. Here are some titles, with Louis Pastorelli’s complicity.

Les Âmes fortes (The Strong Souls), by Raoul Ruiz, with Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal… 2001, according to the work of Jean Giono. Original soundtrack is signed by Jorge Arriagada, and uses following tunes stemmed from Nice and Piedmont folk heritage:
     •  Retorna-t’en, ma mia (Go back, my sweetheart), counting rhyme;
     •  Zoli coeur (Pretty Heart), traditional song.

Le gendarme se marie (The Policeman Get Married), by Jean Girault, with Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru… 1968. Near end of the movie, a folk band comes before the bridal procession, playing a traditional farandole:
     •  Farandola prouvençala (Farandole from Provence).

Going back... to Nissa la Bèla (Going back... to Nice the Fair), by Christian Passuello and Jànluc Sauvaigo, 1996. Sound track proposes following tunes:
     • Carnaval de Saint-Roch (St. Roch Carnival), traditional song, by Louis Pastorelli;
     • Catarina (Katherine), traditional song (Nux vomica);
     • En Barbarìa mai (In Barbary again), traditional song, by Jànluc Sauvaigo and David Certano;
     • La Familha (The Family), traditional song, by Zéphirin Castellon;
     • Li Julis (The Julis), traditional song, by Zéphirin Castellon;
     •  Nissa la bella (Nice the Fair), traditional song, by François-Dominique Rondelly, known as Menica Rondelly;
     • Sirventès de Pepin de Nissa (Sirventès of Joseph « Pépin » from Nice), excerpt from the project Anita, Anita.

Lignes de partage (Lines of division). After the annexation in 1860, some districts from the North-West of the County were kept by the young Italy. This video historical documentary directed by Hervé Barelli relates the difficulties encountered by their inhabitants to obtain the reintegration to the County, became French. The sound track holds the traditional song:
     •  Tenda, la Briga à la Fransa (Tende, La Brigue back to France), by Jouan Nicola, music by F. Mattei.

Le Secret des femmes (The Secret of Women). A video documentary directed by Jean-Pierre Hemeryck concerning the provençal embroidery technic known as boutis, in which it can be heared a traditional round dance of May:
     •  Rounda souspelenca de mai (Round dance of May from Sospel).

The Sun also Rises, by Henry King, with Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Tyrone Power… 1957, according to the work of Ernest Hemingway. During the festival of San Fermín, in the city of Pamplona (Spain), the bands play the theme of the following traditional farandole, stemmed from Nice and Occitany folk heritage:
     •  Carnaval es arrivat (Carnival is arrived).

Legend (click icons, on the left side of tunes title, to access to corresponding files):
		“fife & drums” MIDI file (a)(b)(c).			“brass band” MIDI file (a)(b)(c).			“other instruments” MIDI file (a)(b)(c).
		score: PDF file (c).			lyrics.
Date (dd/mm/yyyy) is the one of the MIDI file. You may also download MIDI and scores files as a whole from the Download page. (a) Tunes will sound better if your computer is connected to a high-fidelity amplifier. (b) Without any further observation, arrangements and harmonizations by J.-G. M. (c) These files and their content are © 2001-2013 Jean-Gabriel Maurandi.

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This page started on May 20th 2009. The last update was May 27th 2013.