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(For music outside of the city and province of Genoa in the Liguria region of Italy, see Music of Liguria.) The music of Italy is well-known, and includes numerous musical types, ranging from parish street bands to symphony orchestras, modern rock and pop and opera houses. ...
// Art Music Art music is a somewhat broader term than classical music and may be defined for the purposes of this article as establishment music (either religious or secular) that is composed for pubic or private performance. ...
Italian opera can be divided into three periods, the Baroque, the Romantic and the modern. ...
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Italy is a European country, and has had a long relationship with rock and roll, a style of music which spread to the country by the early 1960s from the United States. ...
There was a dynamic Italian hardcore punk scene in the 1980s . ...
Italian hip hop started in the early 1990s. ...
Italian folk music has a deep and complex history. ...
Time line for Music of Italy Dates for musical periods such as Baroque, Classical, Romantic, etc. ...
Italian music awards There are a great number of music competitions that offer prizes for performance and composition in both classical and popular music. ...
FIMI Federazione dellindustria musicale italiana (Federation of the Italian music industry) is an umbella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italian. ...
Italian music festivals Below is a list of major music festivals in Italy with links to the appropriate external websites: Arena di Verona Outdoor opera during the summer months in the Roman amphitheater in Verona. ...
Palazzo dei Priori in Perugia The Umbria Jazz Festival is one of the most important venues for Jazz in Europe and has been held annually since 1973, usually in July, in the city of Perugia, Italy. ...
The Festival della canzone italiana (in Italian: Festival of the Italian song) is a popular Italian song contest running since 1951 and held annually in the city of Sanremo. ...
The annual Festival of Ravello is a popular music venue in Italy. ...
Cathedral of Santa Maria dellAssunta in Spoleto The Festival dei due Mondi (Festival of Two Worlds) is an annual summer festival in the city of Spoleto, Italy. ...
Music media in Italy There is an abundance of print, on-line and broadcast media in Italy that cover all kinds of music. ...
A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a countrys government as their official national song. ...
Il Canto degli Italiani (The Song of the Italians) is the Italian national anthem. ...
At first glance, the Music of Abruzzo seems less defined than other regional music in Italy. ...
The music of Basilicata is sparse at the moment. ...
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...
Music of Campania The capital city of the Campania region of Italy is Naples; there is a separate article dealing with the Music of Naples. ...
The Music of Emilia-Romagna has the reputation of being one of the richest in Europe; there are six music conservatories alone in the region, and the sheer number of other musical venues and activities is astounding. ...
While Florence, itself, needs no introduction as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, the music of Florence may, in fact, need such an introduction. ...
The musical fortunes of Friuli-Venezia Giulia are closely tied to its political fortunes over the course of centuries, all having to do with proximity to the great maritime Republic of Venice as well as to the Austro-Hungarian empire and the vicissitudes of being a heavily contested area during...
Ciao, Raggazi Music of Naples is very cool ...
The Piedmont (Piemonte in Italian) has played an important role in the development of music, in general, in Italy, due to the presence of medieval monasteries in that area, institutions that were great preservers of mansucripts in the Middle Ages as well as being geographically well located to connect to...
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. ...
Sicily is home to a great variety of Christian music, including a cappella devotional songs from Montedoro and many brass bands like Banda Ionica, who play songs from a diverse repertoire. ...
(This article is about music in and of the city of Venice. ...
Download high resolution version (1805x2243, 177 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Genoa Categories: GFDL images ...
Below is a list of major Italian opera houses with appropriate external links to their websites: Bologna Teatro Comunale Catania Teatro Bellini Florence Teatro la Pergola Genova Teatro Carlo Felice Florence La Scala Naples Teatro San Carlo Parma Teatro Regio di Parma Palermo Teatro Massimo Rome Teatro dellOpera Torino...
Below is an alphabetical list, by city, of those music conservatories in Italy that maintain webpages. ...
The music of Genoa includes a number of important musical venues. Genoa, a major port, is the capital of the region of Liguria and in the 19th century aspired to recognition as a cultural center more in keeping with its role as a major city in the history of the Risorgimento, the political, social, and military movement that eventually led to the unification the modern nation state of Italy. Italian unification, also known as Risorgimento (resurrection), was a historical process by which the Kingdom of Sardinia (ruled by the Savoy dynasty with Turin as its capital) gradually conquered the Italian peninsula, including the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Duchy of Modena, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy...
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The Teatro Carlo Felice was built in 1828 and named for the monarch of the then kingdom of Sardinia (which included the present regions of Sardinia, Piedmont and Liguria). The theater was the center of music and social life in the 1800s. On various occasions in the history of the theater, presentations have been conducted by Mascagni, Richard Strauss, Hindemith and Stravinsky. Sardinia [[]] (Sardegna in Italian, Sardigna, Sardinna or Sardinnia in the Sardinian language, Sardenya in Catalan), is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica. ...
Piedmont (Italian: Piemonte) is a region of northwestern Italy. ...
Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ...
Pietro Mascagni (Livorno December 7, 1863 - Rome August 2, 1945) is one of the most important Italian opera composers of the turn of the 20th century. ...
Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. ...
Paul Hindemith (November 16, 1895 – December 28, 1963) was a German classical composer, violist, teacher, theorist and conductor. ...
Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky () (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971) was a composer of modern classical music. ...
 Christopher Columbus monument in Piazza Aquaverde On the occasion of the Christopher Columbus celebration in 1992, new musical life was given to the area around the old port, including the restoration of the house of Paganini. Additionally, the city is the site of the Teatro Gustavo Modena, the only theater to have survived the bombings of WW2 relatively intact. The city is the site of the Niccolò Paganini music conservatory. In the town of Santa Margherita Ligure, the ancient Abbey of Cervara is often the site of chamber music concerts. Colombus monument in Genoa I took this picture myself on September, 2003 with a Minolta XD-5 and a 35-70 f/3. ...
Colombus monument in Genoa I took this picture myself on September, 2003 with a Minolta XD-5 and a 35-70 f/3. ...
Christopher Columbus (ca. ...
Niccolò Paganini Niccolò Paganini, (Genoa, October 27, 1782 - Nice, May 27, 1840) was a violinist and composer. ...
Folk tradition The city has also produced a well-known form of folk music in trallalero, a polyphonic vocal music, performed by five men, the tenor, baritone, alto, chitarra and bass. Trallalero thrived in Genoa in the early 20th century, especially the 1920s, when there were many clubs like Tugini's in the city. Trallalero is a kind of polyphonic folk music from the Ligurian region of Genoa, in the north of Italy. ...
External links - Genoa music conservatory
- Concerts today in Genoa
Reference - Surian, Alessio. "Tenores and Tarantellas". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East, pp. 189 - 201
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