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Comprising of a rich musical heritage, Italian folk music comprises of diverse styles, dance forms and musical instruments. With the country’s gradual unification, hundreds of music styles from different Italian regions came together quite late in the 20th century. Italy’s folk music has had several regional influences especially from the south of Europe as well as Celtic, Persian, African, Roma and Arabic. Sardinia’s music compared to the rest of Italy is distinctive, in that it is best known for its chanting of the tenores.

With pockets of small city states in every region, diverse music styles have coexisted for a very long time combining traditions like narrative and ballad singing. American Alan Lomax in 1956 proposed to unify Italy’s musical heritage through a classification system and it has often been repeated since. Italian Diego Carpitella, Franco Coggiola and Roberto Leydi carried out various field recordings and captured various folk traditions.

Italian folk songs talk about important events and celebrations. They also comprise of ballads, lullabies, serenades, epic songs and children’s songs. In 1966, Gianni Bosio founded the Istituto Ernesto de Martino and from here Italian folk music was revived and brought once again into the limelight on a larger scale. Soon various Italian folk bands gained prominence including La Lionetta, La Ciapa Rusa, Re Niliu, Calicanto, and Baraban.

Regions to the north of Italy have deep Celtic and Slavic influences. Central Italy has peasant poets or poeti contadini who sing poems of Homer and Dante, focusing on the political and social situations in that specific region. This medieval style of poetry is sometimes competitive in nature while leaving room for interpretation and improvisations. During the 1970′s roots revival, roots revivalists were greatly influenced by jazz music played entirely on acoustic settings.

Ethnic Greeks have been residing in cities like Calabria and Puglia for a very long time. Traditional folk music emerging from this region includes a religious piece Passiuna tu Christù, which narrates and describes the Passion of Christ. Sicily’s music is more diverse in nature, comprising of devotional and religious songs, harvest folk songs and songs of the peasant workforce.

Musical accompaniments are an important facet of Italian folk music. Some of their instruments are used only for certain religious occasions or rituals like the zampogna bagpipe which is heard only during Christmas. Their main instruments are broken down into three groups – string, percussion and wind. Dancing also plays an integral part of most folk ritual songs. While there are group dances, solo and couple dances also co-exist such as the courting dance called the duru-duru dance in Sardinia.

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Il Volo $7.78 In May 2009, three fresh-faced teenagers, Piero Barone (17), Ignazio Boschetto (16), and Gianluca Ginoble (16), appeared on the popular Italian talent show “Ti Lascio Una Canzone” and dazzled television viewers with their flawless rendition of the Neapolitan standard “O Sole Mio.” The boys, who won the competition easily, decided their group needed a name. “Il Volo,” meaning “flight,” was chosen t…

My Christmas $4.50 A stunningly beautiful new recording by the beloved tenor, his first Christmas album ever recorded with all songs sung in English. Co-produced by legendary music producer David Foster, this will be a major new Christmas album of the season for Christmas 2009. He sings many classical Christmas favorites on this album, that also includes duets with famous female singers Natalie Cole, Katherine Jenki…

Andrea Bocelli – Amore $9.98 Romance. Passion. Emotion. These words are synonymous with the voice of Andrea Bocelli. Almost ten years ago he exploded onto the international music scene with Romanza, and has since sold nearly 50 million albums worldwide. Amore–released amongst the glamor of the Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy (where he will perform at the closing ceremony) and the romance of Valentine’s Day–finds Bocelli st…

Vivere Live in Tuscany [DVD/CD] $18.40 Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 01/25/2008…

The Original Three Tenors Concert $16.76 This third consecutive world cup musical event will include new three tenors repertoire and take place before up to a million fans along the historic champs-de-mars in front of the eiffel tower. The concert will be conducted under the baton of the esteemed james levine. Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 06/24/1997 Starring: Jose Carreras Luciano Pavarotti Rating: Nr…

Andrea Bocelli – A Night in Tuscany $29.98 Part concert, part documentary, part travelogue, this video hit duplicates the sleeper success of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli’s album compilations and underscores his unique crossover appeal. In the U.S., Bocelli’s critical response has been confined to fusillades of scorn from classical and opera writers, but the bulletproof superstar is better understood in the context of Europe’s more establi…

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