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Cc'è la luna n menzu ô mari" (Sicilian for 'There's the moon amid the sea'), mostly known in the English-speaking world as "C'è la luna mezzo mare", "Luna mezz'o mare" and other similar titles, is a comic Sicilian song with worldwide popularity, traditionally styled as a brisk 6 8 tarantella. The song portrays a mother-daughter "coming of ...
Già la luna è in mezzo al mare, mamma mia, si salterà! Presto in danza a tondo, a tondo, donne mie venite qua, un garzon bello e giocondo a ciascuna toccherà, finchè in ciel brilla una stella e la luna splenderà. Il più bel con la più bella tutta notte danzerà. Mamma mia, mamma mia, già la luna è in mezzo al mare, mamma mia, mamma mia,
Its first archetype is La Danza - Tarantella Napoletana by Giacchino Rossini, 1835. As for the language, lyrics of La Danza - Tarantella Napoletana (1835) were written by Carlo Pepoli (born in Bologna, not Naples or Sicily), in Italian language (not Neapolitan or Sicilian). Then Paolo Citorello (from Sicily) wrote a version in Sicilian language.
C'è la luna mezzo mare and Cherubino's aria, Non so più cosa son from Le Nozze di Figaro; There was a soundtrack released for the film in 1972 in vinyl form by Paramount Records, on CD in 1991 by Geffen Records, and digitally by Geffen on August 18, 2005. [10]
The classical pieces are "How Fair This Place" ("Здесь хорошо") by Rachmaninov; "Figlio Perduto" is based on the second movement "Allegretto" of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7; "Solo Con Te" is based on Siegfried Ochs' (attributed to Handel) Dank sei dir, Herr; "La Luna" is an adapted Italian version of the aria "Song to the Moon" from Dvořák's opera Rusalka.
The popular wedding tarantella C'è la luna mezzo mare has appeared in feature films such as The Godfather (1972). [ 11 ] In The Godfather Part II (1974), Frankie Pentangeli tries to get the band playing at Michael's son's First Communion party (whose members are not Italian) to play a tarantella; following some quick coaching, the band instead ...
Canzone napoletana (Italian: [kanˈtsoːne napoleˈtaːna]; Neapolitan: canzona napulitana [kanˈdzoːnə napuliˈtɑːnə]), sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song, is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language, ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, although well represented by female soloists as well, and expressed in familiar genres such as the ...
The Italian is the debut album by Italian baritone Patrizio Buanne.It was released in the United Kingdom on February 28, 2005, and the United States on March 7, 2006. The album is composed of romantic Italian tunes, influenced by the songs of Italian and Italian-American singers (such as Sergio Bruni and Frank Sinatra) that Buanne heard played as a youth in his father's Italian restaurant.