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  Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Music of Italy
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.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Italian hip hop
The European Music Office's report on Music in Europe claimed that, in general, hip hop from the south of Italy tends to be harder than that from the north [1].
The Music of Calabria Like other regions in southern Italy, Calabria for many centuries was an integral part of the kingdom of Naples, and, as with other regions, the musical life tended to be overshadowed by the important activities in the capital city to the north--the conservatories there, the...
The Music of Trentino-South Tyrol reflects the multilingual and multiethnic make-up of the region.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Italian-hip-hop   (2468 words)

  
 Taranta - centro studi di danza etnica
The populous centers of Puglia once were characterized by grand musical ensembles, small dance orchestras and fervent instumental schools composed principally of craftsmen.
The album is a mixture of music for the dance performed in the last 80 years in various parts of Sicily.
This disc continues the musical explorations of the liscio dances of Romagna, among the many tradtitional dances that were in use up to the Second World War and that still exist today in the memories of elderly musicians and dancers.
www.saltarello.it /ethnica.html   (3767 words)

  
 MUSIC OF ITALY FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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.
Cinecittà soundtrack music and bossa nova were major influences on Nicola_Conte (''Bossa_Per_Due''), an influential downtempo performer of the later 20th century.
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 DEMO DEMO DEMO Music of Italy
Cinecittà soundtrack Music and bossa nova were major influences on Nicola Conte (''Bossa Per Due''), an influential downtempo performer of the later 20th century.
Puglia is also home to brass bands like Bando Ruvo di Puglia; this tradition has led to collaborations with jazz musicians like Matteo Salvatore, Battista Lena, Eugenio Colombo and Enrico Rava.
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 similar to the Greek aulos.
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 Regione Puglia, Apulia region
Puglia is the long strip of land, 400km from north to south, that makes up the "heel" of Italy.
But if there's one symbol of Puglia that stands out, it's the imposing castles built by the Swabian Frederick II, all over the province - foremost of which are the Castel del Monte and the remnants of the palace at Lucera.
Nevertheless, there's a geographical diversity to Puglia that can be very attractive, though to get to the best of the province you either need your own transport or the patience to use the often erratic local buses.
www.italiamia.com /region_puglia.html   (581 words)

  
 EarthClubFactory.com: World Music CD Compilations by Putumayo
The music of the tea lands is as rich and diverse as the cultures where tea is produced.
As with most music in the Americas, merengue is a blend of African and European elements with barely detectable traces of a long-extinct indigenous culture.
Music captures the soul of a people, and when one hears music of other lands, they are connected to the heartbeat of that culture.
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 Folksy Links! Folk Band and Musicians On Line - I -
Danú, is an Irish traditional music group with a strong ethos of loyalty to that tradition from which their music comes.
Dublin City Ramblers, are now part of Irish musical history, and wherever they go on their continuous world travels, they draw in people from all walks of life with one binding ingredient, a love of Irish music as played and sung by Dublin's favourite sons.
Kyle-na-no, is a musical group composed of musicians of a variety of backgrounds (classical, jazz, folk-rock) who have been united by a passion for the music which form part of the cultural heritage of Ireland and the other Celtic nations.
www.folksylinks.it /folksy_i.html   (7830 words)

  
 The Artists
He bases his instrumental technique on treatises and iconographical sources of the 16th and 17th centuries; he believes that, to give a convincing performance of this repertoire, it is of paramount importance to have a profound knowledge of the original fingerings and criteria of interpretation.
Fascinated by the immense richness of the Hispanic and European musical repertoire earlier than 1800, the group was united in a common aim – the study and the interpretation of ancient music based on new and up-to-date premises.
He was previously Master of Music of Westminster Cathedral for nearly 12 years, during which time the cathedral choir came to be recognized as one of the leading ensembles of its type in the world, and achieved unprecedented success with its recordings.
www.lufthansafestival.org.uk /2002/html/artists.html   (3100 words)

  
 Domenico Morgante, Biografia
Parallelly to the musical studies, he has brought the musicological studies and italian Letters to conclusion, cum laude graduating himself to the University of the Studies in Bari with a musicological dissertation on the executive praxis for italian Organ and Harpsichord in the Baroque age.
From that year it is titular near the Institute “G. Galilei” of Monopoli, where it teaches Italian Literature and Organ near the attached Academy of Organ "G. Insanguine" (founded under the aegis of the Italian Organ Confederation, to which is affiliate, and with the moral and artistic support of the Italian Association Church Organists).
He has worked to various European Musical Projects: particularly he has been the first researcher in Puglia to collaborate on behalf of the S.I.D.M., already in 1980, to the Project of the “Répertoire International des Sources Musicales”.
digilander.libero.it /domenicomorgante/Biography.htm   (791 words)

  
 Ethica Series of Italian Folk Music, Taranta Records / cdRoots
In this central region, a cultural crossroads, there is a rich history of dance music: saltarella, ballarella, quadriglia, tre passi, danzo, scossë, valzer, polka e mazurka.
Umbria is one of the least explored regions of Italy, musically speaking, due in part to the progressive dispersion of the popular dance.
The traditional bagpipe music of Lucania, Italy, the zampogna - the bagpipes and the wind instruments of the pastoral tradition: a rich archaic repertory of song and dance executed with various types of keyed zampogne, surdulina, ciaramelle, flutes, and clarinets.
www.cdroots.com /rd-ethnica.shtml   (1795 words)

  
 The Artists
These variations of the Irish music scene overlapped with one of the less happy periods of the social history of Ireland.
Musicians needed a solid musical base to play for hours and hours in noisy and crowded dance halls: this base could be the accompaniment by a piano, or a full rhythm section with piano, guitar, bass and drums.
These new Celtic musicians were someway able to increase the interest for Celtic music in a generation closer to the musical styles of popular musicians such as the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan than to the great Irish musicians of the past, such as Padraig O'Keeffe or Willie Clancy.
digilander.libero.it /alfstone/the_artists.htm   (1239 words)

  
 Puglia (Italy) - Review - SAMPLING SALENTO
Puglia or Apulia as the English would have it is more or less the heel of the Italian boot.
Puglia was inhabited in the third millennium BC by the people from Illyria and Epirus (now Greece), tribes who were divided into Daunii in the north of Puglia, Messapi in the South and Peucetti in the middle.
Nowadays Puglia is more prosperous than other southern regions of Italy and seems to be successfully utilising its agricultural and tourist potential to redress the long history of neglect and deprivation.
travel.ciao.co.uk /Puglia_Italy__Review_5425653?...   (2906 words)

  
 Classical Music Download, CD, MP3, Soft Music :: http://soft-music.com/cd-mp3/
Your bedroom music should be soft and tender with this music.
The ways the music can be delivered to listeners or to audience has changed dramatically last 50 years.
The most traditional method was deliver live music, from singer or composers to audience, who come to listen.
www.soft-music.com /cd-mp3/index.php?SearchIndex=DVD&Operation=ItemSearch&Actor=Frank+Puglia   (262 words)

  
 Wagner Sophomore to Sing at White House Holiday Reception | News
Puglia applied in July to the Visitor’s Office of the White House for a chance at performing at one of their Holiday Receptions.
Forty-three performers (mostly groups, with just a few soloists like Puglia) were chosen to entertain visitors during the seven days of Holiday Receptions the White House hosts throughout the month of December.
Puglia resides in Northvale, New Jersey with his parents, John and Kathy, as well as his younger brother, James.
www.wagner.edu /news/puglia   (505 words)

  
 Artists in Puglia (Directory/Europe/Italy/Puglia/Arts/Artists) - Worldwidirectory.com
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Puglia, in Italy’s deep south, where the country's heel rounds to the foot’s arch, is a land of shimmering heat, olive groves and artists’ dreams.
Pooglia Tribe was born in 1998 in Italy's Puglia region as the result of countless concerts, jams, radio broadcasts, etc. that brought together a wide range of individuals and crews into this...
www.worldwidirectory.com /Europe/Italy/Puglia/Arts/Artists   (571 words)

  
 Services on music in Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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.
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 North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey!
Puglia, 19, a sophomore at Wagner College on Staten Island and a 2004 graduate of Northern Valley Regional High School Old Tappan, has been singing since elementary school.
Puglia still lives in Northvale, where he is a volunteer firefighter.
Puglia is majoring in music and education and hopes to become a performer or music teacher after graduation.
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 Puglia Rental - trulli in puglia - accommodation in Puglia - apartments - b&b - farmhouse in Puglia - italy travel ...
Puglia Rental is hotel, farmhouse, trulli, villas, apartments, and self catering holiday accommodation in the puglia region of Italy.
Many of our Puglia Rental farmhouse in Italy are set in open countryside, with swimming pools, gardens, open fires, and modern self-catering facilities.
Puglia Rental puts you in the heart of rural Italy, mountain treks, cycling routes and woodland walks are easily accessible from many of our Italian Puglia self catering apartments.
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 United Pugliesi Federation
Puglia Night, Puglia Weekend and Puglia Week, in cooperation with Apulian government agencies and other entities in Italy and in the US.
The Federation encourages a broader and deeper understanding of the USA on the part of Pugliesi in Italy and of Puglia on the part of the U.S.A. The Federation promotes the intellectual growth of its members, as well as their interest in civil, social, educational and political affairs.
The Federation acts as a liaison between the Pugliesi in Italy and the government of Regione Puglia, and the metropolitan area of New York, its government agencies, groups, and institutions, solely for charitable and educational purposes, as described in the Not for Profit Corporation Law.
unitedpugliesifederation.org   (476 words)

  
 Learn more about Italy in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Although Roman Catholicism is the majority religion (85% of native-born citizens are nominally Catholic) there are mature Protestant and Jewish communities and a growing Muslim immigrant community.
Literary achievements, such as the poetry of Petrarch, Tasso, and Ariosto and the prose of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and Castiglione exerted a tremendous and lasting influence on the subsequent development of Western culture, as did the painting, sculpture, and architecture contributed by giants such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raffaello, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, and Michelangelo.
The musical influence of Italian composers Monteverdi, Palestrina, and Vivaldi proved epochal; in the 19th century, Italian romantic opera flourished under composers Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, and Giacomo Puccini.
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 Frank Puglia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1921, Puglia was appearing as Pierre Frochard in a revival of the old theatrical warhorse The Two Orphans when he was spotted by film director D.W. Griffith.
For the rest of his long film career, Puglia essayed a wide variety of ethnic supporting parts, portraying priests, musicians, diplomats and street peddlers.
All-Music Guide is a registered trademark of AEC One Stop Group, Inc.
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 MUSIC FARM WELLNESS - MUSIC FARM WELLNESS - MUSIC FARM - MUSIC FARM - TV MUSIC FARM WELNESS - MUSIC FARM
MUSIC FARM....RAI 2 TV: Amadeus, Rosita Celentano e Gene Gnocchi sono i tre conduttori del reality-show Music farm ambientato presso l'Health Center Marc Messegue è situato nel comune di Montecchio, in provincia di Terni, a pochi chilometri dalla bellissima Todi e ad un passo da Melezzole, un caratteristico paesino umbro dalla storia antichissima.
Music farm e' prodotto da Raidue in collaborazione con la casa di produzione Magnolia e andra' in onda per otto settimane.
MUSIC FARM - I cantanti si sfideranno nella beauty farm con gare canore e il vincitore avra' la possibilita' di realizzare e promuovere un disco contenente i suoi successi storici e le nuove canzoni.
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 Puglia - Puglia Region - Puglia Southern Italy
Puglia is the flattest region of Italy; some of the terrain is sparse and rocky, with little vegetation growing.
One of the most touristic attractive areas of Puglia and one of the most beautiful landscapes all over the region is the wonderful the Itria Valley or Valle d'Itria, which is covered with "Trulli" and white "Masserie", the supreme expression of peasant architecture.
For instance, going to visit an old fortified farm it is possible to find out that it has been recently restrucured and tranformed in a top quality hotel, where it is possible to taste traditional cookery dishes, finely prepared, accurately respecting the old recipes of the Mediterranean diet.
www.puglia-rental.com /INGLESE/citta_puglia/presentazione.asp   (862 words)

  
 > World> Italiano> Regionale> Europa> Italia> Puglia - Web design 101   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Cerca in Puglia - Directory con possibilità di ricerca contenente le risorse in rete che riguardano la regione..
ItineraWeb - Dedicato alla Puglia, presenta informazioni sull'arte e cultura, i monumenti, i castelli, la natura, il turismo, la gastronomia, la tradizioni contadine e lo sport..
Puglia Imperiale - "Quattro passi nelle terre di Federico".
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 Music of Italy - All About All
The Istituto Ernesto de Martino was founded by Gianni Bosio in 1962 to document Italian oral culture and traditional music.
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 similar to the Greek aulos.
Music of immigrant communities in the United States
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 San Giuliano di Puglia - Music Voyager Travel Guides : Information Portal
San Giuliano di Puglia is a small town in the province of Campobasso, in the region of Molise, in Italy.
The town came to sudden and sad celebrity on October 31, 2002, when it was severely damaged by an earthquake.
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.
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 puglia - Ask.com Web Search
Apulia (official Italian name: Puglia) is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Otranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south.
Although Puglia comprises a diversity of morphological zones with clearly defined characteristics, it retains a precise uniformity, conferred...
Apulia (official Italian name: Puglia ['puʎːa]) is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to...
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