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110 relations: A cappella, Abruzzo, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Agriculture, Alan Lomax, Ancient Greece, Arabic music, Arrivederci Roma, Aulos, ’O sole mio, Balkan music, Banda Ionica, Baraban, Brass band, Cagliari, Calabria, Campania, Cantacronache, Cantu a tenore, Carnival of Venice (song), Celtic music, Centro Nazionale di Studi di Musica Popolare, Ciccio Busacca, Dante Alighieri, Diego Carpitella, Dormi, dormi, bel Bambin, Efisio Melis, Elena Ledda, Emilia-Romagna, English language, Enrico Rava, Ernesto de Martino, Ethnomusicology, Eugenio Colombo, Europe, Franco Battiato, Fratelli Mancuso, Friuli, Funiculì, Funiculà, Genoa, Giovanna Marini, Gozo, Greek language, Guitar, Harvest, Homer, Ignazio Buttitta, Italian city-states, Italian Peninsula, Italian unification, ..., Jazz, La Lionetta, La Piazza, Latium, Launeddas, Lazio, List of Italian-language poets, Lombardy, Lucilla Galeazzi, Luigi Lai, Lycosa tarantula, Marenariello, Maria Carta, Marisa Sannia, Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, Mediterranean Sea, Middle Ages, Milan, Monody, Montedoro, Music of Africa, Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, Organetto, Ottava rima, Pandemonio, Paolo Fresu, Passion of Jesus, Persian traditional music, Piedmont, Pizzica, Polyphony, Regions of Italy, Religious music, Roberto Leydi, Roots revival, Salento, Saltarello, Samatzai, Sardinia, Sardinian language, Sicily, Southern Italy, Spoleto, Tarantella, Tazenda, Tenores di Bitti, Torna a Surriento, Trallalero, Tre Martelli, Trumpet, Tullia Magrini, Tuscany, UNESCO, Veneto, Vigna, Vittoria Archilei, Woodwind instrument, Work song, Zampogna. Expand index (60 more) »
A cappella
A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.
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Abruzzo
Abruzzo (Aquiliano: Abbrùzzu) is a region of Southern Italy, with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.2 million.
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Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (National Academy of St Cecilia) is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded by the papal bull Ratione congruit, issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western musical history: Gregory the Great, for whom the Gregorian chant is named, and Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music.
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).
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Arabic music
Arabic music or Arab music (Arabic: الموسيقى العربية – ALA-LC) is the music of the Arab people.
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Arrivederci Roma
"Arrivederci Roma" (English: "Goodbye, Rome") is the title and refrain of a popular Italian song, composed by Renato Rascel, with lyrics by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini.
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Aulos
An aulos (αὐλός, plural αὐλοί, auloi) or tibia (Latin) was an ancient Greek wind instrument, depicted often in art and also attested by archaeology.
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’O sole mio
"" is a globally known Neapolitan song written in 1898.
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Balkan music
Balkan music is a type of music found in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe.
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Banda Ionica
Banda Ionica is an Italian folk group focused on the brass band traditions of Sicily.
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Baraban
Barabàn is an Italian folk group focused on the musical traditions of northern Italy, especially that of the Po River valley.
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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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Cagliari
Cagliari (Casteddu; Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy.
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Calabria
Calabria (Calàbbria in Calabrian; Calavría in Calabrian Greek; Καλαβρία in Greek; Kalavrì in Arbëresh/Albanian), known in antiquity as Bruttium, is a region in Southern Italy.
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Campania
Campania is a region in Southern Italy.
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Cantacronache
Cantacronache is a popular Italian band formed in Turin in 1958 by Fausto Amodei, Michele Straniero, Giorgio De Maria, Emilio Jona, Sergio Liberovici, and Margot.
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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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Carnival of Venice (song)
The Carnival of Venice, is a folk tune popularly associated with the words "My hat, it has three corners" (or in German, Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken).
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Celtic music
Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe.
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Centro Nazionale di Studi di Musica Popolare
The Centro Nazionale di Studi di Musica Popolare (CNSMP; Italian: "National Centre for Folk Music Studies") is a scholarly center for music studies in Italy.
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Ciccio Busacca
Francesco Busacca better known as Cicciu or Ciccio Busacca (1925–1989) was born in Paternò, Province of Catania.
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Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages.
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Diego Carpitella
Diego Carpitella (Reggio di Calabria, 1924-Rome, 1990) was an Italian professor of ethnomusicology at D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara and La Sapienza University in Rome.
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Dormi, dormi, bel Bambin
Dormi, dormi, bel Bambin is an Italian Christmas carol.
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Efisio Melis
Efisio Melis (1890–1970) was a Sardinian folk musician.
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Elena Ledda
Elena Ledda (born 17 may 1959 in Selargius) is an Italian singer from Sardinia.
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Emilia-Romagna
Emilia-Romagna (Emilian and Emélia-Rumâgna) is an administrative Region of Northeast Italy comprising the historical regions of Emilia and Romagna.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Enrico Rava
Enrico Rava (born 20 August 1939), is an Italian jazz trumpeter.
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Ernesto de Martino
Ernesto de Martino (1 December 1908 – 9 May 1965) was an Italian anthropologist, philosopher and historian of religions.
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Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it.
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Eugenio Colombo
Eugenio Colombo (born 10 December 1953 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian saxophonist and flautist most associated with avant-garde jazz.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Franco Battiato
Francesco "Franco" Battiato (born 23 March 1945, Ionia, Sicily) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter.
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Fratelli Mancuso
The Fratelli Mancuso, the brothers Enzo and Lorenzo Mancuso, are musicians who were born in Sutera in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily.
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Friuli
Friuli is an area of Northeast Italy with its own particular cultural and historical identity.
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Funiculì, Funiculà
"Funiculì, Funiculà" is a famous Neapolitan song composed in 1880 by Luigi Denza to lyrics by Peppino Turco.
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Genoa
Genoa (Genova,; Zêna; English, historically, and Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.
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Giovanna Marini
Giovanna Marini (born Giovanna Salviucci; 19 January 1937) is an Italian singer-songwriter and researcher of ethnomusicology.
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Gozo
Gozo (Għawdex,, formerly Gaulos) is an island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Harvest
Harvesting is the process of gathering a ripe crop from the fields.
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Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.
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Ignazio Buttitta
Ignazio Buttitta (19 September 1899 – 5 April 1997) was an Italian poet who wrote predominantly in Sicilian.
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Italian city-states
The Italian city-states were a political phenomenon of small independent states mostly in the central and northern Italian peninsula between the 9th and the 15th centuries.
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Italian Peninsula
The Italian Peninsula or Apennine Peninsula (Penisola italiana, Penisola appenninica) extends from the Po Valley in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south.
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Italian unification
Italian unification (Unità d'Italia), or the Risorgimento (meaning "the Resurgence" or "revival"), was the political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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La Lionetta
La Lionetta is an acoustic band of Turin, Piemont.
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La Piazza
La Piazza is an Italian folk music group that records and performs arrangements considered to be of traditional Latium inspiration.
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Latium
Latium is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
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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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Lazio
Lazio (Latium) is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy.
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List of Italian-language poets
List of poets who wrote in Italian (or Italian dialects).
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Lombardy
Lombardy (Lombardia; Lumbardia, pronounced: (Western Lombard), (Eastern Lombard)) is one of the twenty administrative regions of Italy, in the northwest of the country, with an area of.
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Lucilla Galeazzi
Lucilla Galeazzi (Terni, 24 December 1950) is an Italian folk singer.
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Luigi Lai
Luigi Lai (born July 25, 1932) is an Italian musician from Sardinia, and is living heir of the school of Sarrabus players of the launeddas.
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Lycosa tarantula
Lycosa tarantula is the species originally known as the tarantula, a name that nowadays commonly refers to spiders in another family entirely, Theraphosidae.
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Marenariello
"Marenariello" is a Neapolitan song written in 1893 by Gennaro Ottaviano (words) and Salvatore Gambardella (music).
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Maria Carta
Maria Carta (24 June 1934 – 22 September 1994) was an Italian folk music singer-songwriter.
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Marisa Sannia
Marisa Sannia (February 15, 1947 Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy – April 14, 2008 Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy) was an Italian singer from the island of Sardinia.
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Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
The Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity was made by the Director-General of UNESCO starting in 2001 to raise awareness of intangible cultural heritage and encourage local communities to protect them and the local people who sustain these forms of cultural expressions.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Milan
Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.
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Monody
In poetry, the term monody has become specialized to refer to a poem in which one person laments another's death.
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Montedoro
Montedoro (Sicilian: Muntidoru) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Caltanissetta in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about west of Caltanissetta.
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Music of Africa
The traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent, is historically ancient, rich and diverse, with different regions and nations of Africa having many distinct musical traditions.
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Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare
The Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare (literally "New Company of Folk Song"), also known by the acronym NCCP, is an Italian folk group, founded in Naples in 1969.
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Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano
Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano was an Italian language music magazine published in Milan, Italy.
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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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Pandemonio
Pandemonio is a Lombardian folk band.
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Paolo Fresu
Paolo Fresu (born February 10, 1961) is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music.
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Passion of Jesus
In Christianity, the Passion (from Late Latin: passionem "suffering, enduring") is the short final period in the life of Jesus covering his entrance visit to Jerusalem and leading to his crucifixion on Mount Calvary, defining the climactic event central to Christian doctrine of salvation history.
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Persian traditional music
Persian traditional music or Iranian traditional music, also known as Persian classical music or Iranian classical music, refers to the classical music of Iran (also known as Persia).
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Piedmont
Piedmont (Piemonte,; Piedmontese, Occitan and Piemont; Piémont) is a region in northwest Italy, one of the 20 regions of the country.
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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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Regions of Italy
The regions of Italy (Italian: regioni) are the first-level administrative divisions of Italy, constituting its second NUTS administrative level.
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Religious music
Religious music (also sacred music) is music performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence.
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Roberto Leydi
Roberto Leydi (Ivrea, 21 February 1928 – Milan, 15 February 2003) was an Italian ethnomusicologist.
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Roots revival
A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors.
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Salento
Salento (Salentu in the Salentino dialect) is a geographic region at the southern end of the administrative region of Apulia in Southern Italy.
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Saltarello
The saltarello is a musical dance form originally from Italy.
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Samatzai
Samatzai is a town in the province of South Sardinia, located on the fringe of the Campidano in Sardinia (Italy).
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Sardinia
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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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Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Southern Italy
Southern Italy or Mezzogiorno (literally "midday") is a macroregion of Italy traditionally encompassing the territories of the former Kingdom of the two Sicilies (all the southern section of the Italian Peninsula and Sicily), with the frequent addition of the island of Sardinia.
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Spoleto
Spoleto (Latin Spoletium) is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines.
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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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Tazenda
Tazenda is a Sardinian ethnic pop-rock band.
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Tenores di Bitti
The Tenores di Bitti are a traditional folk music group from Bitti, Sardinia who employ a polyphonic vocal style, often described as a type of overtone singing, whose oral tradition dates back to 3000 BC.
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Torna a Surriento
"Torna a Surriento" is a Neapolitan song composed in 1902 by Italian musician Ernesto De Curtis to words by his brother, the poet and painter Giambattista De Curtis.
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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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Tre Martelli
Tre Martelli are an Italian folk and traditional music band.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Tullia Magrini
Tullia Magrini (15 April 1950 – 24 July 2005) was an Italian anthropologist, an Associate Professor of Anthropology of Music at the University of Bologna.
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Tuscany
Tuscany (Toscana) is a region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants (2013).
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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Veneto
Veneto (or,; Vèneto) is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
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Vigna
Vigna is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution.
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Vittoria Archilei
Vittoria Archilei (La Romanina) (fl. 1582 – 1620) was an Italian singer, dancer, and lutenist.
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Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments.
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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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Zampogna
Zampogna is a generic term for a number of Italian double chantered pipes that can be found as far north as the southern part of the Marche, throughout areas in Abruzzo, Latium, Molise, Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, and Sicily.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_folk_music
