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  Music of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Modern Musical notation may have begun in Italy, although the oldest surviving examples of music notation are from Regensburg in Germany, and the point is much debated by scholars: notation may have been invented in Frankish monasteries during the time of Charlemagne.
The earliest notation arose from the neumes of plainchant.
The music of the island of Sardinia is distinct from that of the rest of Italy, and is best known for the polyphonic chanting of the tenores.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Italy   (2242 words)

  
 Calabria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Calabria was an important centre of Ancient Greek civilisation before the rise of the Roman Empire.
Calabria was for many years part of the Roman Empire and after its fall came under the rule of the Byzantine Empire and the Normans.
The Aspromonte, a mountainous region of central Calabria, was the scene of a famous battle of the Risorgimento (unification of Italy) in which Garibaldi was wounded.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/calabria.html   (547 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Music of Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Calabria - Campania - Genoa - Liguria - Lombardy - Piedmont - Puglia - Rome - Sardinia - Sicily - Tuscany - Veneto
Calabria, formerly Brutium, is a region in southern Italy which occupies the toe of the Italian peninsula south of Naples.
Main article: Music of Sardinia Probably the most culturally distinct of all the regions in Italy, Sardinia is an islated island known for the tenores polyphonic chant, sacred songs called gozos and launeddas, a type of bagpipes.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-Italy   (5765 words)

  
 MUSIC OF ITALY FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Modern Musical_notation may have begun in Italy, although the oldest surviving examples of music notation are from Regensburg in Germany, and the point is much debated by scholars: notation may have been invented in Frankish monasteries during the time of Charlemagne.
It should be noted that Ancient Greece had music notation (a surviving example is the Seikilos_epitaph), but the art was lost around the 4th century and not recovered until the Carolingian_Renaissance.
Cinecittà soundtrack music and bossa nova were major influences on Nicola_Conte (''Bossa_Per_Due''), an influential downtempo performer of the later 20th century.
velocipay.com /Music_of_Italy   (1977 words)

  
 Ancient Greeks in modern Calabria
We go to a traditional festival in Calabria and discover an ancient culture which is a living link to the glory that was Greece...
Music is provided courtesy of local musicians and a master of ceremonies - lu mastru a ballu - leads the dancers in the twisting and turning
Ettore Castagna, organiser of the festival and artistic director of Medmedia explains that the music of this area is based around single passages which are repeated with variations.
www.italiaplease.com /eng/megazine/music/2001/09/calabria   (583 words)

  
 Services on music in Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The music database is searchable in separate fields by name, by title (uniform title or title on the document, variant title, etc.), by musical form, instrument or voice, opus or catalogue number, date of composition or publication, plate number and other subjects.
The IBIMUS is a private organisation, responsible of coordinating music cataloguing in central and southern Italy.
C.I.R.Pe.M. is the Italian branch of RIPM (the Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale), the international repertoire of music periodicals of the 19.th century, that publishes indexes and keywords of music periodicals.
www.cilea.it /music/musserv.htm   (2134 words)

  
 Calabria
And when he takes aim against the baseness of the human spirit (hypocrisy, intrigues, vanity, ambition, deceits), he does not limit himself to denigrating it by turning it into corrosive, shouted satire, but represents it and clearly postulates his faith in the possibility of overcoming it.
The event tends to take on connotations of infinity in the cyclical recurrence of experience, which is individual, but always tends to be affected by the destiny of man sentenced to an endless journey of enrichment.
Maffia attests (maybe for a whole generation, and not only for Calabria) how poetry can renew starting from itself, from the point where transparency was still essential, and peculiar senses were entrusted to verbal signs.
home.att.net /~l.bonaffini/calabria.htm   (2292 words)

  
 Gender Research in Music Education
These cases, according to female music students, raise the question of whether universities are either unaware of the sexual climate in their music schools or unconcerned about policing their professors.
Calabria demoted her to fourth chair and told her she didn't have what it took to be a musician.
The researcher observed the interactions of students in his grade 7 and 8 music classes and ensembles in a multi-class, multi-ethnic suburban senior public school; a journal of observations was used later as data for analysis.
post.queensu.ca /~grime/v11n1.html   (7552 words)

  
 danza tradizionale in calabria
The course programme is based on the traditional music for lyre from Locri area with a particular attention to the overall music as didactic instruments.
Cataforìo is a little village 7 Km far away from Reggio Calabria reached by car both from the Thyrrhenian sea (via the motorway SA-RC) and the Ionian sea (main road 106 Ionian).
The underlying purpose is that of providing a direct approach with the ethnomusical and dancing cultures from Calabria mixing with a quality tourism and a sight of the alternative regional culture.
www.med-media.it /mch-.htm   (945 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Putumayo presents some of Italy's best roots music ensembles and soloists in this collection.
None of the selections on Italian Musical Odyssey have been released in the US before now, and many have never been heard outside of Italy.
Recorded in 1954 and 1955 by Alan Lomax and Italian ethnomusicologist Diego Carpitella, the recordings collected on The Italian Treasury made history even in Italy for the incredible strength of the traditional music still being sung and played throughout the country.
www.rootsworld.com /italy/contest.html   (137 words)

  
 Italy
Like the city it honors, their music is cosmopolitan, a blend of Mediterranean cultures with a bit of an eastern attitude.
Since 1977 they have released innumerable recordings of the regional folk music of Italy, and this is a collection of their favorites from those many years of making music.
Their music comes from the Piemonte region of Italy and is rich in diversity, blending raw folk melodies with almost classical elegance.
www.rootsworld.com /rw/feature/italy1.html   (3387 words)

  
 Jazz Club 900 the biography and discography of jazz musicians, artists and players   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
ALEX CARRERI Bassist, double-bassist and composer, he begun in young age his musical activity, getting experienced in various styles and collaborating with musicians and artists from different backgrounds.
In 1997 he was present in the project of research and re-promotion of the ethnic music from Calabria with the band "Phaleg", partecipating to several festivals such as "Suoni Di Tutti I colori" (Sa), "Festival Internazionale Della Zampogna" in Scapoli (Is), "Amore E Rabbia" in Verzino (Kr) and recording the album "Psyche".
He is also teaching bass and ensamble music at The Modern Music Academy OF Piacenza and at the Mondo Music School in Varese.
www.jazz900.com /prg/file_art.asp?qa=130   (304 words)

  
 Books, Music, Movies, Flags, Maps of Italian American interests.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Calabria, is as important to America's Italian cuisine as Sicily and Naples.
Includes old Lullabies & Chants from Calabria's Past.The work chants of tuna fishermen of Vibo Valentia, the cries of the swordfishermen of Scilla; women, men, and children singing songs of work and celebration, of love and scorn; tarantellas; and lullabies; music for bagpipe, tambourine, and drums.
Discribes the harsh life in Calabria at the turn of this century.
www.viva-books.com /vb.html   (1584 words)

  
 Records International catalogue October 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The music is as skilfully written for the strings as for Goetz' own instrument, the piano, and anyone who wishes there were as yet undiscovered chamber masterworks by Schumann or Brahms would do well to console themselves by investigating this disc.
Her chosen idiom is not especially modern, and the music is accessible at first hearing, and goes on to reveal layers of meaning subsequently.
Flössner's music is basically tonal, and quite romantic in outlook; while obviously of the 20th century it is the music of a conservative; the sort of thing Franz Schmidt might have been doing had he been born 25 years later.
www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogOct98.html   (11710 words)

  
 Southern Italian groups   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
ETNIA, Traditional music and dance of central and southern Italy.
ASSOCIAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE CALAMUS, from the town of Picinisco in the province of Frosinone, have an ethnic dance group,an accordion orchestra, ethnic music quartet, wind quintet and coro polifonico.
CANTICA POPULARIA (on Musiqua website)traditional music of Campania and Southern Italy
www.italianfolkmusic.com /southgrp.html   (924 words)

  
 Music Library March 2003 Acq. List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Entertainment music, for string quartet, in the southern tradition.
In the 3rd: Anand Devendra, Dennis Smylie, Leslie Thimmig, clarinets ; Group for Contemporary Music ; Harvey Sol[l]berger, conductor.
Celebration (1995) / Tom Gauger (10:09) -- The Morning of the world (1974) / William Maloof (5:45) -- Forest rain (1974) / Niel De Ponte (6:49) -- Chamber Music IV (1979) / Robert Suderberg (13:22) -- Son Montuno / Orlando Cotto (5:48) -- Xenolith for mallet jazz quartet and string quartet (1972.
www.lib.washington.edu /music/maracq03.html   (2821 words)

  
 Cilea, Francesco Music Web Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Francesco Cilea and Adriana Lecouvreur - OperaResource details of the composition and presentation of his most famous opera with protagonists, settings, composer photograph, and links to librettist and libretto.
Francesco Cilea - Biography with major teaching and compositional achievements from the Francesco Cilea Conservatory of Music, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
Cilea, Francesco - Biography noting his operatic emphasis, directorship of the Naples Conservatory, and mixed acceptance of his works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_C_Cilea,_Francesco.html   (1651 words)

  
 Our Calabria Heritage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Shown here is one of the many small villages found, nestled on the rugged slopes of the Calabria mountains.
The village is typical of the many remote mountain, villages found throughout Calabria.
Calabria, the most backward part of Italy (a province that was still largely devoid of any form of modern amenity).
www.glilli.com   (241 words)

  
 Directory - Regional: Europe: Italy: Arts and Entertainment: Music: Education
This category is for music schools, camps, teachers, and any other local means of music education.
Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music  · Institute offering various music-liturgical disciplines, with particular attention given to the practical, theoretical and historical aspects expressed in different cultures which comprise the Church.
The Assisi Music Festival  · Information about this summer workshop for singers, instrumentalists, and choir directors.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=486348   (175 words)

  
 music
Innovative Afro-American singer Kelis and some of the best deejays in Europe have been hosted by enzimi, which by the way means not only music but also film, theatre and ballet.
The major pop music festival in Italy and one of the largest in Europe, featuring international top-of-the-chart artists.
The greatest Italian independent music festival, featuring a wide variety of genres and groups.
www.italiantourism.com /music.html   (813 words)

  
 Top Calabria Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Calabria's weekly Newspaper offers news and events covering all the regions of Calabria..
Badolato, Reggio di Calabria- A virtual tour of a magical 11th century walled city perched above the Ionian Sea.
Forgotten by the world for centuries, empty of residents since the 1940s, Badolato is now being revitalized by the talents of local historians and architects.
www.glilli.com /links.htm   (2725 words)

  
 Balli Tradizionali in Umbria / RootsWorld Recording Review
Due to its central location, the region of Umbria absorbed the musical and dance vocabularies of many other regions in Italy, as well as those of other parts of Europe.
The result of such interaction is that the music of Umbria often sounds more generically Italian than, say, the distinctive sound of the music of Calabria or Piedmonte.
As the music recorded here is for dancing, the harmonic language tends towards straightforward tonic-dominant relationships.
www.rootsworld.com /reviews/ethnica4.shtml   (382 words)

  
 Reggio Calabria - Music Voyager Travel Guides : Information Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Reggio Calabria is the capital of the southern Italian region of Calabria.
It has about 180,000 inhabitants, and faces the sea on the other side of which lies the Sicilian city of Messina.
Be sure to select your connection speed and then what kind of music you're looking for over on the right hand side for optimal listening pleasure.
www.musicvoyager.com /info/re/Reggio_Calabria.html   (170 words)

  
 Words & Music: A Literary Feast In New Orleans
Words and Music is a feast for the ears, the eyes, the soul with its examination of fiction, non fiction, and new phenomena within the literary and communications arena and its photographic art exhibitions, film sessions, drama, poetry readings at the cocktail hour, great music, dancing, and the renowned cuisine of New Orleans.
Soler showed himself to be unusually sensitive to color and the rhapsodic rise and fall of the phraseshe played dazzling solos with his left hand on the fingerboard, unleashed a battery of right-hand percussive effects on the body of the guitar, and engaged in some creative pitch-bending on blues-tinged melodies.
The recital is divided into two parts, with the first a panoramic view of Spanish music before and after Cervantes, while the second half is to be a musical rainbow representing Latin American composers.
www.wordsandmusic.org /words.html   (3622 words)

  
 Historical Encyclopedia of WA - WA Snapshots
This deployment, during which the Australian cruiser was awarded the battle honours Calabria 1940, Cape Spada 1940 and Mediterranean 1940, was completed in January 1941.
1967 saw the school designated as a special music school with a program for gifted music students; and in 1980 it embraced a special ESL (English as a second language) unit reflecting the cultural diversity of the student population.
Poliomyelitis, once known as infantile paralysis, is a virus that attacks the grey matter of the spinal cord, causing paralysis and possible death.
www.encyclopedia.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /wa_snapshots   (9969 words)

  
 Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: C: Cilea, Francesco
Francesco Cilea  · Classical Music Dictionary entry with life, major works, and illustrations.
Francesco Cilea  · cached · Biography with major teaching and compositional achievements from the Francesco Cilea Conservatory of Music, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
Cilea, Francesco  · Biography noting his operatic emphasis, directorship of the Naples Conservatory, and mixed acceptance of his works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=559864   (194 words)

  
 Rune - calabria (Artificial Funk Mix) - Last.fm
Rune - calabria (Artificial Funk Mix) - Last.fm
Music > Rune > calabria (Artificial Funk Mix)
5 people have listened to calabria (Artificial Funk Mix) by Rune.
www.last.fm /music/rune/_/calabria+%28Artificial+Funk+Mix%29   (75 words)

  
 World Music Magazine
World Music Magazine continua un viaggio iniziato molto tempo fa, documentando le molte "terre"...
Nel senso che World Music Magazine difende con ostinazione un concetto semplice e profondo: tutte le tradizioni sono frutto di mediazioni culturali difficili, nascoste o sotto gli occhi e le orecchie di tutti.
La classifica dei dischi trasmessi dai principali DJ di World Music d'Europa.
www.worldmusiconline.it   (423 words)

  
 Calabria - Music Voyager Travel Guides : Information Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Calabria - Music Voyager Travel Guides : Information Portal
Bounded in the north by the regions of Campania and Basilicata, Calabria faces the island of Sicily across the Strait of Messina.
Tropea[?], on the Tyrrhenian Sea coast, is a beautiful city, with a nice seaside.
www.musicvoyager.com /info/ca/Calabria.html   (176 words)

  
 Sheet Music Retailers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Reynard Music publisher of clarinet, saxophone and wind ensembles
Address: Music Offices 9AM-9pm Central Time, 505 Eliot Drive, Urbana, IL 61801-6727 USA, Specializing in music for solo cello, cello ensembles,arias with original cello obbligato solos and more.
Comprehensive selection of sheet music and books from all European and American publishers.
www.chambermusic.co.uk /sheetmusic   (185 words)

  
 Popular Music Research Group: Publications
Revolution and Legitimation in British Pop Music of the 1960s', Musik/Revolution, Von Bockel Verlag, Hamburg, ed.
'Introduction: Music Studies and the Idea of Culture' and 'Locating the People: Music and the Popular', in The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction, ed.
‘The disintegration of community: a brief history of popular music in French cinema 1945-present’, in Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno: Culture, Identity and Society, eds.
www.ncl.ac.uk /sacs/POP/publications.htm   (846 words)

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