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The Italian folk revival was accelerating by 1966, when the Istituto Ernesto de Martino was founded by Gianni Bosio in Milan to document Italian oral culture and traditional music. With the emergence of the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare in 1970, the notion of a musical group organized to promote the music of a particular region (in this ...
Italian folk music groups (2 C, 23 P) M. Italian folk musicians (1 C, 9 P) S. Italian folk songs (2 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Italian folk music"
The universality of Italian culture ensured that jazz clubs would spring up throughout the peninsula, that all radio and then television studios would have jazz-based house bands, that Italian musicians would then start nurturing a home grown kind of jazz, based on European song forms, classical composition techniques and folk music. Currently ...
Italian folk music (6 C, 9 P) T. Italian traditions (7 C, 36 P) This page was last edited on 15 May 2024, at 05:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Italian popular music is musical output which is not usually considered academic or classical music but rather has its roots in the popular traditions, and it may be defined in two ways: it can either be defined in terms of the current geographical location of the Italian Republic with the exceptions of the Germanic South Tyrol and the eastern portion of Friuli-Venezia Giulia; alternatively ...
Map of polyphonic folk singing in Italy. Trallalero is a kind of polyphonic folk music from the Ligurian region of Genoa, in northern Italy.It is traditionally performed by men, though there have been some female performers in the modern era.
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.
Currently, the Archives of Ethnomusicology contain over 11,000 recordings of traditional music, including about 7,000 documents of Italian folk music. Special attention is devoted to the Central and Southern regions — including Sicily and Sardinia — and to liturgical chants of the Mediterranean.