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The city of Venice in Italy has played an important role in the development of the music of Italy.The Venetian state—i.e. the medieval and Early Modern Maritime Republic of Venice—was often popularly called the "Republic of Music", and an anonymous Frenchman of the 17th century is said to have remarked that "In every home, someone is playing a musical instrument or singing.
AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema of the 20th century. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 22, 2004, in a CBS television special hosted by John Travolta, who appeared in two films honored by the list, Saturday Night Fever and Grease. The list was created by a panel of jurors ...
The city of Venice in Italy has played an important role in the development of the music of Italy.The Venetian state—i.e. the medieval Maritime Republic of Venice—was often popularly called the "Republic of Music", and an anonymous Frenchman of the 17th century is said to have remarked that "In every home, someone is playing a musical instrument or singing.
Seeing the business potential for music printing, in 1498 Petrucci had obtained an exclusive 20-year license for all printing activities related to music anywhere in the Venetian Republic. Three years later, in 1501, he brought out his first anthology, 96 secular songs, mostly polyphonic French chansons , for three or four voice parts, calling ...
Laborde Chansonnier – ca. 1470 – Unknown, (author) – France – Library of Congress, Music Division Rare Book Room of the Library of Congress: Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music: 19th-century, American, minstrel music, popular music, war songs: 29,000 American popular music spanning the years 1780–1980. Johns Hopkins University
Since 1904, the library offices, the reading rooms, and most of the collection have been housed in the adjoining Zecca, the former mint of the Republic of Venice. The library is now formally known as the Biblioteca nazionale Marciana. It is the only official institution established by the Venetian Republican government that survives and ...
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Palazzo Barbaro-Wolkoff (centre), Venice, where Fauré stayed in 1891 Cinq mélodies "de Venise" , Op. 58, is a song cycle by Gabriel Fauré , of five mélodies for voice and piano . Composed in 1891, the cycle is based on five poems by Paul Verlaine , [ 1 ] from the collections Fêtes galantes and Romances sans paroles . [ 2 ]