The Centro Nazionale di Studi di Musica Popolare (CNSMP; Italian: "National Centre for Folk Music Studies") is a scholarly center for music studies in Italy. It is housed on the premises of the

National Academy of Santa Cecilia The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia ( en, National Academy of St Cecilia) is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded by the papal bull ''Ratione congruit'', issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prom ...

in Rome. The CNSMP was founded in 1948 by Giorgio Nataletti. Currently, the Archives of Ethnomusicology contain over 11,000 recordings of traditional music, including about 7,000 documents of Italian folk music. Special attention is devoted to the Central and Southern regions — including Sicily and Sardinia — and to liturgical chants of the Mediterranean. The collections include the research of

Alan Lomax Alan Lomax (; January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a musician himself, as well as a folklorist, archivist, writer, sch ...

and

Diego Carpitella Diego Carpitella (Reggio di Calabria, 1924 - Rome, 1990) was an Italian professor of ethnomusicology at D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara and La Sapienza University in Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = ...

, hundreds of documents recorded in 1954–55, as well as the results of the research of

Ernesto De Martino Ernesto de Martino (1 December 1908 – 9 May 1965) was an Italian anthropologist, philosopher and historian of religions. He studied with Benedetto Croce and Adolfo Omodeo, and did field research with Diego Carpitella into the funeral rituals o ...

and Carpitella in Southern Italy. Along with classification of its materials (which, since 1996, has included

Leo Levi Leo Levi (1912–1982) was an Italian musicologist. He was the first to study the oral musical traditions of Italian Jewry. Grandson of a rabbi, Levi’s attempt to submit a PhD thesis at the University of Turin on the music in Italian syn ...

's collection of Hebrew liturgical music), the Archive has issued a journal since 1993, entitled ''EM — Rivista degli Archivi di Etnomusicologia dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia'', which is currently published by Squilibri, Rome.

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Bulletin of Italian Ethnomusicology National Academy of Santa Cecilia

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Italian music {{Italy-org-stub

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