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In Italy, the music of Verdi and Puccini continued to dominate for a number of years. Even the realistic plots and more modern compositional techniques of the operas of Italian verismo , such as Mascagni 's Cavalleria rusticana , did not greatly affect the extremely melodic nature of Italian music.
The relatively recent history of Italy includes the development of an opera tradition that has spread throughout the world; prior to the development of Italian identity or a unified Italian state, the Italian peninsula contributed to important innovations in music including the development of musical notation and Gregorian chant.
Romantic music in Italy, however, cannot be said to have died under its own weight, as one might say of the overlong and over-orchestrated works of the late Romantic music in Germany that gave way to Minimalist music. But abstraction and atonality and, simply, "difficult" music did come to Italy after the death of Puccini.
1537 — Santa Maria di Loreto, the first music conservatory, is opened in Naples. 1543 — Death of Francesco Canova da Milano, famous lutenist, and the first native Italian musician to achieve an international reputation. mid-16th century — Italy is the premier center of harpsichord construction.
Maps of traditional music instruments in Italy. Left map: zampognas out of use in the early 1900s. Right map: chitarra battente (red dithering), ghironda (red) and tambourine with zills (green). From Atlante tematico d'Italia, Touring Club Italiano, 1992. The northern regions of Italy historically exhibited Celtic and Slavic influences in their ...
Italian music history (7 C, 15 P) I. Italian music industry (5 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "Music of Italy" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 ...
Italy portal; Music portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. A. ... Pages in category "Italian music history"
The music of Florence is foundational in the history of Western European music.Music was an important part of the Italian Renaissance.It was in Florence that the Florentine Camerata convened in the mid-16th century and experimented with setting tales of Greek mythology to music and staging the result—in other words, the first operas, setting the wheels in motion not just for the further ...