Italy

52 articles related to Italy:

1. 

   Choir

   Miserere mei, Deus: Allegri's sacred music myth

   Gregorio Allegri's Miserere mei, Deus belongs to the sacred repertory of the papal chapel in Rome. The title translates…

   July 3, 2026

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   Male Vocal

   Somos Novios: exploring the meaning of Manzanero's famous bolero

   In 1968, Mexican songwriter Armando Manzanero released the enchanting love song Somos Novios. Two years later, American…

   July 1, 2023

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   Songwriter

   Tornerò: revealing the song meaning

   Tornerò—the 1974 debut single by the Italian pop group I Santo California—may have initially achieved only moderate…

   June 3, 2023

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   Piano

   Nuvole Blanche: the critical simplicity of Einaudi's best-known piece

   Nuvole Blanche is one of the best-known piano pieces by the Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi released on his 2004…

   September 13, 2021

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   Songwriter

   Yo No Te Pido la Luna: origins and meaning of Daniela Romo's best hit

   Yo No Te Pido la Luna is an influential Latino pop song whose musical harmony borrows from the 1980s Italian track Non…

   August 30, 2021

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   Oboe

   Marcello's Oboe Concerto arranged by Bach and mistakenly attributed to Vivaldi

   Concerto in D minor for oboe, strings, and continuo, also known as Marcello's Oboe Concerto, can rightfully be called a…

   May 21, 2021

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   Film

   Gabriel's Oboe: soulful Morricone tune that soothes the Iguazu Falls

   Gabriel's Oboe is a short instrumental piece written by Ennio Morricone for a key scene in Roland Joffé's period drama…

   February 27, 2021

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   Theorbo

   The first-ever music for solo theorbo by Kapsberger

   Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger was an Italian composer of German origin whose creative activity occupied the transition…

   September 10, 2020

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   Nature Sounds

   8 orchestral pieces depicting thunderstorms

   Of all the meteorological phenomena, thunderstorms are perhaps one of the most imposing forces of nature, so it is not…

   August 23, 2020

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    Double bass

    Giovanni Bottesini as most influential contrabass maestro of the Romanticism

    Giovanni Bottesini was an Italian composer and legendary contrabassist of the Romantic period whose work for solo…

    May 20, 2020

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    Mandolin

    Vivaldi's two mandolin concertos as the core of classical mandolin music

    Although the mandolin in its modern design can be traced from the second half of the Baroque period, its role in…

    April 22, 20201 comment

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    Music Theory

    Mixolydian mode: famous examples in classical and pop music

    In the 17th century, the major and minor scales became the basis for almost all classical music compositions. This…

    April 5, 202013 comments

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    Poetry

    Lamento de la Ninfa: Monteverdi's song of love, fire and ice

    Lamento de la Ninfa is one of the most famous vocal pieces of Claudio Monteverdi, a leading Italian composer whose work…

    March 11, 2020

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    Music Theory

    Microtonality: the variety of approaches to microtonal music in world cultures

    In theory, microtonal music describes a piece that contains one or more intervals measuring below a semitone. Although…

    February 19, 2020

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    Classical Guitar

    Matteo Carcassi's guitar etudes of early Romanticism are still relevant for teaching classical guitar

    Matteo Carcassi was an Italian guitar composer whose creative period coincided with the expansion of classical music…

    February 16, 20206 comments

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    Nature Sounds

    Crickets choir: musical examples imitating rhythmic patterns of chorusing insects

    One of the most mesmerizing sounds in nature is the bizarre rhythmic patterns generated by chorusing insects. While…

    February 9, 20201 comment

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    Orchestra

    Сontemporary orchestration of early Italian music by Bruno Maderna

    Bruno Maderna was an outstanding Italian conductor and composer whose music was mostly associated with avant-garde and…

    January 22, 2020

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    Classical Guitar

    The guitar caprices of Luigi Legnani imbued with famous Paganini works

    Luigi Legnani was a guitar composer whose most active years coincided with the rise of the Romantic period which was…

    January 15, 2020

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    Orchestra

    Nicola Porpora: operatic composer made history as a music teacher of Haydn and Farinelli

    Nicola Porpora was an Italian composer of the late Baroque period whose operas brimmed with an excellent orchestral…

    November 17, 20191 comment

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    Piano

    Ferruccio Busoni as a great piano transcriber of Bach's keyboard music

    Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian pianist, composer and theoretical writer whose creative period fell on the transitional…

    October 13, 20191 comment

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    Classical Guitar

    Ferdinando Carulli: the Parisian sensation and décacorde guitar inventor

    Ferdinando Carulli was among the most influential Italian guitarists whose music, textbooks, and instrument design…

    October 9, 20192 comments

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    Violin

    Devil's Trill Sonata: Giuseppe Tartini was unable to recreate Lucifer's music played in his dream

    Despite its ominous title, the Devil's Trill Sonata is a gentle and peaceful Baroque piece for solo violin accompanied…

    October 6, 2019

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    Poetry

    Zefiro Torna: famous madrigal by Monteverdi lauds the west wind that brings spring

    Originating in the 14th century as a poetic form, the madrigal is a short poem of lyrical content. During the…

    September 11, 2019

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    Music Theory

    Classic examples of the Phrygian mode through the music eras

    From Middle Ages to modernity, Western music has been largely based on diatonic scales that organize seven notes into…

    August 24, 20194 comments

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    Manuscript

    Rich music collection of the Trecento times recovered from Florentine palimpsest

    It is difficult to imagine, in the current digital world, the serious difficulties associated with recording any…

    July 23, 2019

26. 

    Violin

    A spice of Italy, delivered to London by Nicola Matteis, edged out the French dance fashion from violin music

    One of the first pieces of evidence of Italian invasion during the Baroque period in England is Ayrs for the Violin—the…

    July 14, 2019

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    Nature Sounds

    Why birds sing their songs: great maestros proving the musicality of nightingale, cuckoo, yellowhammer

    It is no coincidence that the sounds emitted by birds are known in many languages as "songs", rather than simple animal…

    June 23, 20191 comment

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    Piano

    Lodovico Giustini wrote the first ever piano sonatas for the instrument invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori

    One of the main disadvantages of the harpsichord is its constant volume level which does not depend on the strength of…

    May 15, 20191 comment

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    Piano

    Beethoven's famous piano trio carried the genre to the Romantic era

    Compositions written for a group of three instruments where the leading piano is usually accompanied by a violin and…

    March 29, 20192 comments

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    Film

    The necessity of undramatic humanity in Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch

    A set of 11 short stories collected in the film Coffee and Cigarettes depicts the nostalgic era every older smoker…

    January 8, 2019