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A list of songs about Italy. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. N. Songs about Naples (5 P) R. Songs about Rome (5 P)
The following is a list of songs about cities. It is not exhaustive. Cities are a major topic for popular songs. [1] [2] Music journalist Nick Coleman said that apart from love, "pop is better on cities than anything else." [1] Popular music often treats cities positively, though sometimes they are portrayed as places of danger and temptation.
"Torna a Surriento" (pronounced [ˈtɔrn a ssurˈrjendə]) is a Neapolitan song composed in 1894 by Italian musician Ernesto De Curtis to words by his brother, the poet and painter Giambattista De Curtis.
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]
According to a 1969 report from SEDRIM (from Società per l'Esercizio dei Diritti di Riproduzione Meccanica), then Italian mechanical rights society, Italy was a singles-market with songs accounting 85.8 percent of total record sales in the country. A "top hit" single in Italy at that time was grouped between 500,000 and 700,000 copies. [1]
[2] [a] The song was sung for the first time in the Quisisana Hotel [b] in Castellammare di Stabia. It was presented by Turco and Denza at the Piedigrotta festival during the same year and became immensely popular in Italy and abroad. [5] Published by Casa Ricordi, the sheet music sold over a million copies in a year. [1]
Italian folk songs include ballads, lyrical songs, lullabies and children's songs, seasonal songs based around holidays such as Christmas, life-cycle songs that celebrate weddings, baptisms and other important events, dance songs, cattle calls and occupational songs, tied to professions such as fishermen, shepherds and soldiers.
"'Faccetta Nera'" (lit. ' Pretty black face ' or ' Little black face ') is a popular marching song of Fascist Italy about the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.It was written by Renato Micheli with music by Mario Ruccione in 1935.