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Neapolitan. " Santa Lucia " (Italian: [ˈsanta luˈtʃiːa], Neapolitan: [ˈsandə luˈʃiːə]) is a traditional Neapolitan song. It was translated by Teodoro Cottrau (1827–1879) into Italian and published by the Cottrau firm, as a barcarola, in Naples in 1849. Cottrau translated it from Neapolitan into Italian during the first stage of the ...
See media help. "Cc'è la luna n menzu ô mari" (Sicilian for 'There's the moon amid the sea'), mostly known in the English-speaking world as " C'è la luna mezzo mare ", " Luna mezz'o mare " and other similar titles, is a comic Sicilian song with worldwide popularity, traditionally styled as a brisk 6. 8 tarantella.
Giovanni Capurro. " 'O sole mio " (Neapolitan pronunciation: [o ˈsoːlə ˈmiːə]) is a well-known Neapolitan song written in 1898. Its Neapolitan-language lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the music was composed by Eduardo di Capua (1865–1917) and Alfredo Mazzucchi (1878–1972). [2] The title translates literally as "my sun" or ...
Funiculì, Funiculà. " Funiculì, Funiculà " (IPA: [funikuˈli (f)funikuˈla]) is a Neapolitan song composed in 1880 by Luigi Denza to lyrics by Peppino Turco. It was written to commemorate the opening of the first funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius. It was presented by Turco and Denza at the Piedigrotta festival the same year.
Alpini songs. The Alpini are a mountain infantry corps of the Italian Army, that distinguished itself in combat during World War I and World War II. They are also famous in Italy for their songs and choirs. The first Alpini units were formed in 1872 by recruiting soldiers among the inhabitants of the valleys of Italy’s northern mountain regions.
The song was one of the most common songs during the Third Italian War of Independence (1866). [28] At the Capture of Rome on 20 September 1870, the last step in Italian unification, choirs sang it together with "La bella Gigogin" and the "Marcia Reale"; [35] [37] and "Il Canto degli Italiani" received bersaglieri fanfare. [38]
The Italian folk revival was accelerating by 1966, when the Istituto Ernesto de Martino was founded by Gianni Bosio in Milan to document Italian oral culture and traditional music. With the emergence of the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare in 1970, the notion of a musical group organized to promote the music of a particular region (in this ...
Naples has played an important and vibrant role over the centuries not just in the music of Italy, but in the general history of western European musical traditions.This influence extends from the early music conservatories in the 16th century through the music of Alessandro Scarlatti during the Baroque period and the comic operas of Pergolesi, Piccinni and, eventually, Rossini and Mozart.