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Following the festival, the biggest success and most popular song was "Cuore matto" by Little Tony, which sold 6 million copies and was the no.1 hit for nine consecutive weeks in the Italian hit parade. During the festival, following the elimination of his song performed with his partner Dalida, singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco committed suicide. [1]
The Zecchino d'Oro International Festival of Children's Song has been held every year since 1959, first as a national (Italian) event, and after 1976 as an international one. The 1964 songs were recorded for an LP titled The Little Dancing Chicken, (an English translation of "Il Pulcino Ballerino", the award-winning song that year). The LP was ...
Trovajoli in 1960 Trovajoli and Pier Angeli on their wedding day, London, 14 February 1962. Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli, 2 September 1917 – 28 February 2013) [1] was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor, many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. [2]
Italian term Literal translation Definition Lacuna: gap: A silent pause in a piece of music Ossia: from o ("or") + sia ("that it be") A secondary passage of music which may be played in place of the original Ostinato: stubborn, obstinate: A repeated motif or phrase in a piece of music Pensato: thought out: A composed imaginary note Ritornello ...
Kuroneko no Tango" (Japanese: 黒ネコのタンゴ "Black Cat Tango"; [1] originally Italian: Volevo un gatto nero "I wanted a black cat") is a tango song recorded in 1969 by young children in Italy and Japan. The original Italian version came last in the Zecchino d'Oro competition on 11 March 1969.
The Cat fugue has been a popular piece at least since the 19th century.Franz Liszt – who had been introduced to the piece by the Roman collector of manuscripts Fortunato Santini [4] – included it in his programmes in Berlin in the early 1840s; [5] Ignaz Moscheles also performed it, and both programmed it under the title Cat's fugue.
The new lyrics were characterized by the fact that lei ("her") in the title referred to music whereas in the original song lei referred to a girl. [2] Thus the new version of Vivo per lei became a tribute to music using the pronoun in the title: lei in Italian, ella in Spanish, elle in French, ela in Portuguese, and sie in German, as a metaphor ...
Verdi was the composer of the Italian Risorgimento, the movement to unify Italy in the 19th century. Later in the century is also the time of the early career of Giacomo Puccini, perhaps the greatest composer of pure melody in the history of Italian music. Frontispiece from the score of Cavalleria rusticana, a masterpiece of Italian Verismo ...