The music tracks are pieces of popular music, specifically marches, from the territories involved in the project. The participants in the test were made to listen to four marches, composed by Cesk Zadeja (Albania), Alfredo D’Ascoli (Puglia), Ludwing Minkus (Montenegro) and Giuseppe Manente (Molise). It was possible to carry out the neuroscientific test thanks to the use of the Brainwear® EMOTIV-X headset.
Skenderbeu Music – Cesk Zadeja (Albania)
This work was composed by the great master of Albanian music Cesk Zadeja, who composed the song in honor of the Albanian national hero Gjergj Kastriot Skenderbeu, wanting to give value to his heroic wars in the film made in his honor. Zadeja managed to turn one of the songs of his homeland, into a kind of anthem for Albanians, an anthem that, by dressing the hero, lifting the hearts of those who listen to him. The Albanian music that Zadeja had created, took its nectar in folkloric notes, and this was one of the reasons for the success of his evaluation.
La scherzosa – Alfredo D'Ascoli (Puglia)
“La scherzosa - marcia caratteristica” is a composition of Alfredo D’Ascoli, an important musician born in 1895, band director who also worked with Toscanini. He was director of Concerto Musicale Città di Lecce “Tito Schipa” fom 1951 to 1971. He composed various works for Symphonic Band and many trascriptions from the opera and symphonic repertoire. After a very short introduction the main theme of the composition is characterized by great simplicity and singability. An interesting element that colors the piece with liveliness is represented by the repeated brilliant trills. The composition therefore inspires animated suggestions and immediate involvement of the listeners.
The march of King Nicola - Ludwig Minkusi (Montenegro)
"The march of King Nicola" was written by Ludwig Minkus, also known as Léon Fyodorovich Minkus (23 March 1826 – 7 December 1917). He was a Jewish-Austrian composer of ballet music, a violin virtuoso and teacher.
Minkus is noted for the music he composed while serving as the official Composer of Ballet Music to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres in Russia. During his long career, he wrote for the original works and numerous revivals staged by the renowned Ballet Masters Arthur Saint-Léon and Marius Petipa. During his stay in Montenegro he wrote the march for King Nicolas I Petrovic. The march was played during ceremonies.
Fiamme Gialle – Giuseppe Manente (Molise)
Giuseppe Manente was a great Molise composer for band. He composed over 800 publications per band, both as a composer and as a transcriber. In addition to band compositions, military, symphonic, funeral and religious marches, characteristic pieces, symphonies etc. he composed the one-act opera Alla Regata and the operetta Il Paradiso dei Cigni. He is also the author of chamber music, vocal music, songs for voice and mandolin, and over a hundred compositions for plectrum and plucked instrument formations, very popular at the time in Italy and still today in Japan.
This is a military march, composed in 1929 for the Corps “Regia Guardia di Finanza”, the Hymn of the Financier, dedicated to Commander General Di Benedetto.