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  2. Italian folk music - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Music of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Folk musicians use the dialect of their own regional tradition; this rejection of the standard Italian language in folk song is nearly universal. There is little perception of a common Italian folk tradition, and the country's folk music never became a national symbol. [41]

  4. Music history of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Also around this time, Italian flagellants developed the Italian folk hymns known as spiritual laude. Between 1317 and 1319, Marchettus of Padua wrote the Lucidarium in artae musicae planae and the Pomerium artis musicae mensuratae , major treatises on plainchant and polyphony , expounding a theory of rhythmic notation that paved the way for ...

  5. Italian popular music - Wikipedia

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    Italian popular music is musical output which is not usually considered academic or classical music but rather has its roots in the popular traditions, and it may be defined in two ways: it can either be defined in terms of the current geographical location of the Italian Republic with the exceptions of the Germanic South Tyrol and the eastern portion of Friuli-Venezia Giulia; alternatively ...

  6. Tarantella - Wikipedia

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    Italian girl dancing the tarantella, 1846 Italians in Naples dancing the tarantella. The nowadays southern part of Italy was not part of a single country until the mid to late 19th century. [3] The place was a colony of ancient Greece, and even Napoli ("Naples") comes from the Greek word "Neapolis," which means "New City."

  7. Santa Lucia (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Santa Lucia" (Italian: [ˈsanta luˈtʃiːa], Neapolitan: [ˈsandə luˈʃiːə]) is a traditional Neapolitan song. It was translated by Teodoro Cottrau (1827–1879) from Neapolitan into Italian and published by the Cottrau firm, as a barcarola, in Naples in 1849, during the first stage of the Italian unification. Significantly, it is the ...

  8. Category:Italian songs - Wikipedia

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    Italian folk songs (2 C, 14 P) Italian hip-hop songs (17 C, 5 P) ... Pages in category "Italian songs" The following 175 pages are in this category, out of 175 total.

  9. Canzone napoletana - Wikipedia

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    Canzone napoletana (Italian: [kanˈtsoːne napoleˈtaːna]; Neapolitan: canzona napulitana [kanˈdzoːnə napuliˈtɑːnə]), sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song, is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language, ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, although well represented by female soloists as well, and expressed in familiar genres such as the ...