Mirja f' mirja : programs 1-17

Abstract

A series of interviews with Malta’s folk musicians and singers who are either self-taught or have learned to play their instrument without the aid of music scores and through another folk musician. There is also Ghana, Maltese traditional singing. The word can have two literal meanings. The first is richness, wealth and prosperity; the second is associated with singing, verse, rhyme and even kantaliena, a type of singing with a slow rhythm. Għana can be broken up into formal and informal practices.