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Pages in category "Italian musical instruments" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Baghèt;
There are several instruments that retain older forms even while newer models have become widespread elsewhere in Europe. Many Italian instruments are tied to certain rituals or occasions, such as the zampogna bagpipe, typically heard only at Christmas. [48] Italian folk instruments can be divided into string, wind and percussion categories. [49]
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 ...
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
Traditional Italian mandolins, such as the Neapolitan mandolin, meet the necked bowl description. [8] The necked box instruments include archtop mandolins and the flatback mandolins. [9] Strings run between mechanical tuning machines at the top of the neck to a tailpiece that anchors the other end of the strings.
Zuffolo (also chiufolo, ciufolo) is an Italian fipple flute.First described in the 14th century, it has a rear thumb-hole, two front finger-holes, and a conical bore. It is approximately 8 cm in length and has a range of over two octaves, from B 3 to C 6 (Marcuse 1975c).
The cases of Italian instruments were made of cypress wood and were of delicate manufacture, whilst northern virginals were usually more stoutly constructed of poplar. Early Italian virginals were usually hexagonal in shape, the case following the lines of the strings and bridges, and a few early Flemish examples are similarly made.
Important Italian composers in this century are: Domenico Scarlatti, Benedetto Marcello, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Niccolò Piccinni, Giovanni Paisiello, Luigi Boccherini, Domenico Cimarosa, and Luigi Cherubini. It is also the age in which Italian music became international, so to speak, with many Italian composers beginning to work abroad.