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Zampogna* (f)

(with) definite article: la

bagpipe term also used for other aerophones

Identical types: 45

NOT a bagpipe, but a homonym, mentioned in Mahillon, according to whom its Croatian name is "Svardonitsa" [i.e. Svardonica; a duct flute; ws], claiming it to be a Dalmatian double flute [which, however, is called a Dvojnice; ws]; NB¹: The Svardonica is mentioned (together with Piščal, Surla, Svirala, Sviroka, Šip and Žveglja), as a kind of Tibia [pipe], and defined as a "flauto di pastori" [shepherd's flute] or "fistula rusticalis" [rustic pipe] in Stanislav Tuksar, »Hrvatska glazbena terminologija u razdoblju baroka: nazivlje glazbala i instrumentalne glazbe u tiskanim rječnicima između 1649. i 1742. godine« [Croatian music terminology in the Baroque period: the terminology of musical instruments and instrumental music in dictionaries printed between 1649 and 1742] (Zagreb, 1992, p.423 [NB² (ws): ➺ also p.270-280]); In Ardelio Della Bella, »Dizionario Italiano, Latino, Illirico« (Venezia, MDCCXXVIII [1728]), to whom Tuksar refers (➺ p.329 and 432), the name of the instrument is spelt "Svardóniza" (➺ p.320, Flauto da paſtori); NB³: Mahillon also mentions a "Zampogna semplice" [simple [or single] flute] and a "Zampogna di canna" [cane flute][, both of which are not related to the subjects of this treatise.


Sources

Mahillon, Victor-Charles: Catalogue descriptif et analytique du Musée instrumental du Conservatoire royal de Musique, I-V. Gand, 1893-1912, I, p.246 (svardonitsa), 247 (Zampogna semplice & ~ di canna).

Tuksar, Stanislav: Hrvatska glazbena terminologija u »Dizionario italiano-latino-illirico« [di Isusovac (Jesuit)] Ardelia Della Belle [sic; Bella] (Mleci [Venezia/Venice], 1. Izd., 1728): Nazivlje glazbala i instrumentalne glazbe [Names of instruments and instrumental music], p.272, 275 (Svardonica).

Web

Archive.org (Mahillon [Find zampogna: p.52 [&c.]).
Google books (Mahillon [Find zampogna: p.52 [&c.]]).
ibidem (Tuksar [Find svardóniza: p.43, 46 (+ index: p.558)]).
ibidem (Della Bella [Find zampogna: 7 results: [1]: p.165 (~ di canna), [2]: 641 (➺ Sampogna), [3]: 678 [?: no reference detected!], [4]: 679 (Siringa: Zampogna di più canne), [5]: 782 (Zampogna (ſtromento di fiato); ~ paſtorale / ~ di più canne / ~ d’Avorio; Zampognare (ſonar la zampogna); Sonator di zampogna), [6]: index (4x:➺ fiſtula / fiſtulator), [7]: index (~ di canna; (➺ fyrinx)]).