1. Italian
Music

2. Music in Italy General Information Italian Music Before 1500
Opera In Italy
Italian Composers
Music In Modern Italy
Interesting Facts

3. General Information
The music of Italy ranges across a broad spectrum of opera and instrumental classical music, the traditional styles of the country's different regions, and a body of popular music drawn from both native and imported sources. Music has traditionally been one of the cultural markers of Italian national and ethnic identity and holds an important position in society and in politics. Italian innovation in musical scales, harmony, notation, and theatre enabled the development of opera in the late 16th century, and much of modern European classical music, such as the symphony and concerto.
Instrumental and vocal classical music is an iconic part of Italian identity, spanning experimental art music and international fusions to symphonic music and opera. Opera is integral to Italian musical culture, and has become a major segment of popular music. The Neapolitan song, canzone Napoletana, and the cantautori singer-songwriter traditions are also popular domestic styles that form an important part of the Italian music industry, alongside imported genres like jazz, rock and hip hop. Italian folk music is an important part of the country's musical heritage, and spans a diverse array of regional styles, instruments and dances

4. Italian Music Before 1500
Italy was the site of several key musical developments in the development of the Christian liturgies in the West. Around 230, well before Christianity was legalized, the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus attested the singing of Psalms with refrains of Alleluia in Rome. In 386, in imitation of Eastern models, St. Ambrose wrote hymns, some of whose texts still survive, and introduced antiphonal psalmody to the West. Around 425, Pope Celestine I contributed to the development of the Roman Rite by introducing the responsorial singing of a Gradual, and Cassian, Bishop of Brescia, contributed to the development of the monastic Office by adapting Egyptian monastic psalmody to Western usage. Later, around 530, St. Benedict would arrange the weekly order of monastic psalmody in his Rule. Later, in the 6th century, Venantius Fortunatus created some of Christianity's most enduring hymns, including "Vexilla regis prodeunt," which would later become the most popular hymn of the Crusades.

5. Opera In Italy
Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was born in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has continued to play a dominant role in the history of the form until the present day. Many famous operas in Italian were written by foreign composers, including Handel, Gluck and Mozart. Works by native Italian composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini, are amongst the most famous operas ever written and today are performed in opera houses across the world.

6. Classical Music
In Italy

7. Giuseppe Verdi
Verdi, Giuseppe ( ), Italian operatic composer, whose works stand among the greatest in the history of opera.Born the son of illiterate peasants on October 10, 1813, in Roncole in the French-governed state of Parma, he first studied music in the neighbouring town of Busseto. Then, upon being rejected in 1832, because of his youth, by the Milan Conservatory, he became a pupil of the Milanese composer Vincenzo Lavigna. He returned to Busseto in 1833 as conductor of the Philharmonic Society.

8. Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini [1] (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best known operatic works include Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), La Cenerentola, La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) and Guillaume Tell (William Tell). A tendency for inspired, song-like melodies is evident throughout his scores, which led to the nickname "The Italian Mozart." Until his retirement in 1829, Rossini had been the most popular opera composer in history.

9. Modern Italy

10. Luciano Pavarotti
Pavarotti, Luciano, internationally famous Italian tenor, whose dramatic roles and powerful voice have gained him a superstar status akin to that of Enrico Caruso in the early years of the 20th century. He studied first in his birthplace, Modena, then in Mantua, before making his professional debut in Reggio nell'Emilia in 1961, as Rodolfo in La Bohme. His debut at Covent Garden in 1963 brought him to the attention of the Australian soprano Joan Sutherland and launched his international career. Pavarotti was to form a famous partnership with Sutherland: he was part of her company that toured Australia in 1965, learned much about breath support and flexible singing from her, and frequently sang Edgardo to her title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. The two made many recordings together, especially in Sutherland's core repertoire of Bellini and Donizetti. He made his debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera, again as Rodolfo, in 1968.

11. Adriano Celentano
Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Gluck, about which he later wrote the famous song "Il ragazzo della via Gluck" ("The boy from the Gluck Street"). His parents were from Foggia, in Apulia, and had moved north for work.
According to urban legend, before beginning his singing career, Celentano was a student of Ghigo Agosti (European rock pioneer) during Agosti's Northern Italian tour, which was also guitarist Giorgio Gaber's debut.

12. Toto Cutugno
Toto Cutugno was born in Fosdinovo, Tuscany, to a Sicilian father and a Tuscan mother. Shortly after his birth the family moved to La Spezia (Liguria).
He began his musical career as a drummer, but later formed a band that performed his own songs. He also had cowritten for popular French-American singer Joe Dassin, contributing some of his most famous songs, including "L'été indien" ("Africa"), "Et si tu n'existais pas" and "Le Jardin du Luxembourg" (written with Vito Pallavicini)[1]. He also co-wrote Dalida's "Laissez moi danser" (Voglio l'anima"), which became a Platinum record shortly after its release.

13. Interesting Facts
The Italians invented the viol, violin, cello and piano, and were the greatest representative of Baroque music (Vivaldi, Corelli, Monteverdi, Albinoni...).
Opera began in Italy. The word 'opera' actually means 'a work.' The first opera was called Dafne, composed by Jacopo Peri in The first great composer of opera was Claudio Monteverdi ( ) and his works are still performed today.
In the south of Italy, there is a dance called the tarantella. It comes from the town of Taranto where there are lots of large spiders called tarantula. The tradition is that you will be protected from the spider's bite if you dance the tarantella. It is a very lively dance for couples.
Every year there is an important song competition called Zecchino d'Oro (the Golden Sequin). It is a bit like the Eurovision Song Contest but all of the songs are for children and most of the singers are children. It is held in Bologna, Italy and has existed for over fifty years. Each year there are seven Italian songs and seven foreign songs. The winning song receives the Golden Sequin Award. Italian families love to collect the CDs of the songs.

14. Frank Sinatra
(December 12, 1915 May 14, 1998) Frank Sinatra was a popular and highly acclaimed male vocalist and actor. Renowned for his impeccable phrasing and timing, critics place him alongside such artists as Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles as one of the most important, popular and influential musical figures of the 20th century.
Sinatra had a larger-than-life presence in the public eye and, over a seven-decade career in show business, became an American icon. His brash, sometimes swaggering attitude was perhaps best embodied by his signature song "My Way", and more generally by his frequently gutsy cinematic performances. He also garnered considerable attention due to his alleged connections with the Mafia.

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