The paper focuses on the problem of self-preservation of instrumental music and traditional dance in Resia, a Slovenian-speaking valley in the Region of Friuli. In fact traditional music is nowadays exceptionally well conserved and only recently have Resian inhabitants started to perceive the necessity to preserve it, for example by means of teaching Resian music and dance at school. All generations, particularly the younger ones, are practicing traditional dance and the important symbolical meaning of music and dance in rituals and other similar contexts is still recognizable. The main aspect dwelt upon in the paper is the meaning of music in the social context.
