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Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana.Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images").
"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
The song was released as a single in 1978 for the first time together with a remake of "Città vuota (It's a Lonely Town)" and managed to reach number four on the Italian chart. The live version of the song was included in the album Mina Live '78 (1978), and the studio version was published on the compilation Del mio meglio numero sette (1983).
Arranged and conducted by Tony Osborne, the Connie Francis version of the song was a number two hit in the UK, [9] and peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. [10] The song in German (as well as in Dutch and in English) was recorded by Dutch child singer Heintje Simons for his album Heintje in 1967 (lyrics written by Bruno Balz ...
The lyrics were written by his close collaborator of the time Cristiano Minellono, who got the initial inspiration for it from the title of a Canale 5 program of the time, Buongiorno Italia. [ 2 ] Initially titled "Con quegli occhi di italiano" ('With those Italian eyes'), the song was originally intended for Adriano Celentano , who turned it down.
Catulli Carmina (Songs of Catullus) is a cantata by Carl Orff dating from 1940–1943. He described it as ludi scaenici (scenic plays). The work mostly sets poems of the Latin poet Catullus to music, with some text by the composer.
Anema e core" (pronounced [ˈɑːnəm(ə) e kˈkɔːrə]; Neapolitan for "Heart and soul") is a popular Neapolitan song composed by Salve D'Esposito with lyrics by Tito Manlio. It was first introduced in 1950, sung by the tenor Tito Schipa .
Italian Street Song" is a popular song written by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young in 1910. The song was written for and introduced in the operetta Naughty Marietta , which originally opened in Syracuse, New York on October 24, 1910.