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72 relations: Accordion, Bagolino, Bagpipes, Ballad, Bifora, Brass band, Brescia, Broadside, Cantu a tenore, Canzone Napoletana, Carnival, Cello, Clarinet, Dignano, Falsetto, Fassa Valley, Furlana, Galliard, Guitar, Hammered dulcimer, Harmony, Hurdy-gurdy, Italian language, Jew's harp, Languages of Italy, Lauda (song), Launeddas, List of Italian musical terms used in English, Lullaby, Lute, Maggio, Maggio drammatico, Mamoiada, Mandolin, Melody, Monferrina, Monte Amiata, Montferrat, Music of Italy, Neapolitan language, Oboe, Occitan language, Organetto, Ottava rima, Pan flute, Pavia, Piffero, Pizzica, Polyphony, Premana, ..., Purgatory, Rattle (percussion instrument), Rebab, Rendena, Rovinj, Russi, Saltarello, Sardinian language, Shawm, Sicilian language, Singer-songwriter, Spanish language, Tambourine, Tarantella, Tarantula, Trallalero, Trento, Triangle (musical instrument), Viggiano, Villanella, Weapon dance, Work song. Expand index (22 more) »
Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.
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Bagolino
Bagolino is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy, in the valley of the river Caffaro, on the right side of Valle Sabbia.
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Bagpipes
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.
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Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
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Bifora
The bifora or pifara was a Sicilian double reed instrument of the oboe family, related to the ancient shawm and particularly to the piffero of the northern Italian Apennines.
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Brass band
A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.
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Brescia
Brescia (Lombard: Brèsa,, or; Brixia; Bressa) is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy.
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Broadside
A broadside is the side of a ship, the battery of cannon on one side of a warship; or their coordinated fire in naval warfare.
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Cantu a tenore
The cantu a tenòre (also known in Sardinian language as su tenòre, su cuncòrdu, su cuntràttu, su cussèrtu, s'agorropamèntu, su cantu a pròa) or canto a tenore in Italian is a style of polyphonic folk singing characteristic of the island of Sardinia (Italy), particularly the region of Barbagia, though some other Sardinian sub-regions bear examples of such tradition.
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Canzone Napoletana
Canzone napoletana, 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 lover's complaint or the serenade.
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Carnival
Carnival (see other spellings and names) is a Western Christian and Greek Orthodox festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent.
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Cello
The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.
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Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.
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Dignano
Dignano (Dignan) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Udine in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about west of Udine.
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Falsetto
Falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.
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Fassa Valley
The Fassa Valley (Ladin: Val de Fascia, Val di Fassa, Fassatal) is a valley in the Dolomites in Trentino, northern Italy.
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Furlana
The furlana (also spelled furlane, forlane, friulana, forlana) is an Italian folk dance from the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
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Galliard
The galliard (gaillarde; gagliarda) was a form of Renaissance dance and music popular all over Europe in the 16th century.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Hammered dulcimer
The hammered dulcimer is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board.
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Harmony
In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.
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Hurdy-gurdy
The hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.
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Italian language
Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.
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Jew's harp
The Jew's harp, also known as the jaw harp, mouth harp, Ozark harp or juice harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.
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Languages of Italy
There are approximately thirty-four living spoken languages and related dialects in Italy; most of which are indigenous evolutions of Vulgar Latin, and are therefore classified as Romance languages.
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Lauda (song)
The lauda (Italian pl. laude) or lauda spirituale was the most important form of vernacular sacred song in Italy in the late medieval era and Renaissance.
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Launeddas
The launeddas (also called Sardinian triple clarinet or Sardinian triplepipe) are a typical Sardinian woodwind instrument made of three pipes.
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List of Italian musical terms used in English
Many musical terms are in Italian, because many of the most important early composers from the Renaissance to the Baroque period were Italian, and that period is when numerous musical indications were used extensively for the first time.
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Lullaby
A lullaby, or cradle song, is a soothing song or piece of music that is usually played for (or sung to) children.
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Lute
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.
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Maggio
Maggio is a surname.
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Maggio drammatico
Literally, "plays of May" the Maggio drammatico refers to medieval musical and dramatic rituals at planting time in central Italy, typical of many agrarian societies.
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Mamoiada
Mamoiada (Mamujada) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Nuoro in the Italian region of Sardinia, located about north of Cagliari and about southwest of Nuoro.
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Mandolin
A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".
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Melody
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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Monferrina
Monferrina is a lively Italian folk dance in time named after the place of its origin, Montferrat, in the Italian region of Piedmont.
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Monte Amiata
Mount Amiata is the largest of the lava domes in the Amiata lava dome complex located about 20 km northwest of Lake Bolsena in the southern Tuscany region of Italy.
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Montferrat
Montferrat (Monfrà; Monferrato; Mons Ferratus) is part of the region of Piedmont in Northern Italy.
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Music of Italy
The music of Italy has traditionally been one of the cultural markers of Italian national and ethnic identity and holds an important position in society and in politics.
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Neapolitan language
Neapolitan (autonym: (’o n)napulitano; napoletano) is a Romance language of the Italo-Dalmatian group spoken across much of southern Italy, except for southern Calabria and Sicily.
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Oboe
Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind instruments.
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Occitan language
Occitan, also known as lenga d'òc (langue d'oc) by its native speakers, is a Romance language.
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Organetto
Organetto refers to two distinct instruments.
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Ottava rima
Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin.
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Pan flute
The pan flutes (also known as panpipes or syrinx) are a group of musical instruments based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth).
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Pavia
Pavia (Lombard: Pavia; Ticinum; Medieval Latin: Papia) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po.
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Piffero
The piffero or piffaro is a double reed musical instrument with a conical bore, of the oboe family (Sachs-Hornbostel category 422.112).
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Pizzica
Pizzica is a popular Italian folk dance, originally from the Salento peninsula in Apulia and later spreading throughout the rest of Apulia and the regions of Calabria and eastern Basilicata.
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Polyphony
In music, polyphony is one type of musical texture, where a texture is, generally speaking, the way that melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic aspects of a musical composition are combined to shape the overall sound and quality of the work.
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Premana
Premana is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about north of Lecco.
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Purgatory
In Roman Catholic theology, purgatory (via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is an intermediate state after physical death in which some of those ultimately destined for heaven must first "undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven," holding that "certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come." And that entrance into Heaven requires the "remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven," for which indulgences may be given which remove "either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin," such as an "unhealthy attachment" to sin.
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Rattle (percussion instrument)
A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken.
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Rebab
The rebab (ربابة, rabāb, variously spelled rebap, rabab, rebeb, rababa and rabeba, also known as جوزه jawza or joza in Iraq) is a type of a bowed string instrument so named no later than the 8th century and spread via Islamic trading routes over much of North Africa, the Middle East, parts of Europe, and the Far East.
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Rendena
The Rendena is a breed of cattle from the Trentino, in north-eastern Italy, now raised principally in the provinces of Padova, Trento, Verona and Vicenza.
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Rovinj
Rovinj-Rovigno (Croatian; Rovigno, Ancient Greek: Ρυγίνιον (Ryginion), Ruginium) is a city in Croatia situated on the north Adriatic Sea with a population of 14,294 (2011).
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Russi
Russi (Ròss) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ravenna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about east of Bologna and about southwest of Ravenna.
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Saltarello
The saltarello is a musical dance form originally from Italy.
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Sardinian language
Sardinian or Sard (sardu, limba sarda or língua sarda) is the primary indigenous Romance language spoken on most of the island of Sardinia (Italy).
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Shawm
The shawm (/ʃɔːm/) is a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day.
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Sicilian language
Sicilian (sicilianu; in Italian: Siciliano; also known as Siculo (siculu) or Calabro-Sicilian) is a Romance language spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands.
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Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Tambourine
The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils".
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Tarantella
Tarantella is a group of various folk dances characterized by a fast upbeat tempo, usually in 8 time (sometimes or), accompanied by tambourines.
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Tarantula
Tarantulas comprise a group of large and often hairy arachnids belonging to the Theraphosidae family of spiders, of which about 900 species have been identified.
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Trallalero
Trallalero is a kind of polyphonic folk music from the Ligurian region of Genoa, in northern Italy.
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Trento
Trento (anglicized as Trent; local dialects: Trènt; Trient) is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy.
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Triangle (musical instrument)
The triangle is an idiophone type of musical instrument in the percussion family.
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Viggiano
Viggiano is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata.
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Villanella
In music, a villanella (plural villanelle) is a form of light Italian secular vocal music which originated in Italy just before the middle of the 16th century.
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Weapon dance
The weapon dance employs weapons—or stylized versions of weapons—traditionally used in combat in order to simulate, recall, or reenact combat or the moves of combat in the form of dance, usually for some ceremonial purpose.
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Work song
A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a form of work, either sung while conducting a task (usually to coordinate timing) or a song linked to a task which might be a connected narrative, description, or protest song.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Italian_music
