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In modern Italy, one important organization that fosters research in avantgarde and electronic music is CEMAT, the Federation of Italian Electroacoustic Music Centers. It was founded in 1996 in Rome and is a member of the CIME, the Confédération Internationale de Musique Electroacoustique .
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 ...
In Italy, the music of Verdi and Puccini continued to dominate for a number of years. Even the realistic plots and more modern compositional techniques of the operas of Italian verismo, such as Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, did not greatly affect the extremely melodic nature of Italian music.
Mina and Adriano Celentano are one of the best-selling artists in Italy. Even though they may seem strong and mighty they can be taken down at any point in time This is the chart of Italian music artists listed by estimated sales according to the most important Italian newspapers, national television channels and music magazines. As the compilation of official data of sale of records in Italy ...
1410-1415 — Compilation of the Squarcialupi Codex, the largest source of trecento music. c. 1400-c. 1600 Italian Renaissance Music. c. 1420-c. 1490 — Composition of polyphonic music enters a slow period. More great Italian performers than composers are known from this time. Rise of the influential d'Este and Medici political dynasties.
It is estimated that the best-selling album of all time in Italy is La vita è adesso (1985) by Claudio Baglioni which remained for 27 consecutive weeks in first place in Superclassifica TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, [1] from 16 June 1985 to 12 January 1986 (a record that still stands today) and a total of 90 weeks (18 months) in the top ten with more ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:21st-century Italian women composers The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it. Subcategories
The culture of music in Rome is intensely active. The venues for live music include: The venues for live music include: Teatro dell'Opera di Roma , is a theater built in the 1880s in the "building boom" to expand the capital of the new nation-state of Italy.