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  2. Siciliana - Wikipedia

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    The siciliana [sitʃiˈljaːna] or siciliano (also known as sicilienne or ciciliano) is a musical style or genre often included as a movement within larger pieces of music starting in the Baroque period. It is in a slow 6 8 or 12 8 time with lilting rhythms, making it somewhat resemble a slow jig or tarantella, and is usually in a minor key.

  3. Category:Sicilian musical instruments - Wikipedia

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  4. Music of Sicily - Wikipedia

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    The music of Sicily is created by peoples from the isle of Sicily.It was shaped by the island's history, from the island's great presence as part of Magna Grecia 2,500 years ago, through various historical incarnations as a part of the Roman Empire, then as an independent state as the Emirate of Sicily then as an integral part of the Kingdom of Sicily and later the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ...

  5. Musical instrument classification - Wikipedia

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    The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...

  6. Category:Italian musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; ... Music portal Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ... Sicilian musical instruments (3 P ...

  7. Zampogna - Wikipedia

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    Map folk musical instruments in Italy. The double reeded version of the zampogna is generally played with the piffero (called biffera in Lazio, or ciaramella or pipita in other regions; a shawm, or folk oboe), which plays the melody and the zampogna provides chord changes, "vamping" or rhythmic harmony figures or a bass line and a soprano harmony as accompaniment.

  8. Italian folk music - Wikipedia

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    Italian folk music has a deep and complex history. National unification came quite late to the Italian peninsula , so its many hundreds of separate cultures remained un-homogenized until quite recently.

  9. Hornbostel–Sachs - Wikipedia

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    412.13 Free-reed instruments feature a reed which vibrates within a closely fitting slot (there may be an attached pipe, but it should only vibrate in sympathy with the reed, and not have an effect on the pitch – instruments of this class can be distinguished from 422.3 by the lack of finger-holes).