The Italian and the Lucan folk music

The Italian and the Lucan

folk music

THE ITALIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM

• The Italian song, known as the Mameli anthem, has been written in 1847 by Goffredo Mameli when he was just 20. The song became officially the Italian national anthem on October the12th 1946.

THE OPERA• The most known expression of the Italian music is the

Opera that is both theatre, music and ballet. The interpreters do not act their part speaking but singing.

• The most important exponents of the Italian Opera are Giuseppe Verdi and Gioacchino Rossini.

GIOACCHINO ROSSINI

• Gioacchino Rossini was born on the 29th February 1792. The most important operas he wrote were ‘’Barbiere di Siviglia’’, ‘’Guglielmo Tell’’ and ‘’La gazza ladra’’.

GIUSEPPE VERDI• Giuseppe Verdi was born on the 10th October 1813. The

most important operas he wrote when he was young were ‘’Nabucco’’ and ‘’Macbeth’’. When he was older, the most important operas he wrote were ‘’Requiem’’, ‘’Rigoletto’’, ‘’Trovatore’’ and ‘’Traviata’’.

• The greatest interpreters of the Italian Opera are Enrico Caruso and Luciano Pavarotti.

ENRICO CARUSO• Enrico Caruso was born in Naples on the 25th

February 1873. The most famous song he interrpreted was ‘’O’ Sole mio’’. He is the first singer who made records too.

LUCIANO PAVAROTTI• Luciano Pavarotti was born in Modena on the 12th

October 1935. The most famous aria he interrpreted was ‘’Nessun dorma’’ by Puccini.

THE BRIGANDAGE AGE

• During the end of the XVIIIth century and the begenning of the XIXth, the phenomenon of the brigandage spread out in the South of Italy against the Italian Savoy “conquest” of the South of Italy. These outlaws storngly manifested their rage in their anthems . The most known is ‘’Brigante se more’’ .

LUCAN FOLK MUSIC• The Lucan folk music has its roots in the peasant

tradition and today it still maintains its function in the present popular culture.

THE LUCAN FOLK MUSIC’S

INSTRUMENTS ARE:

• Ciaramella

• Double flute

• Chitarra a battente

• Raganella

• Accordion

• Tammorra

• Cupa cupa

• Bagpipe