November 19th, 2007 by admin

Italy’s popular music is divided into different geographical areas influences namely North America, Central, South, Sicily and Sardinia.

The northern and central Italy popular songs:
The population of northern Italy comes from the music of their roots. Historically, the region is issued Celtic and Slavic influences in their culture. It comes from songs from areas such as Piedmont and Lombardy. The city of Genoa, is considered the homeland of “Trallalero” is a form of music, a style of polyphonic singing is done with the help of five votes, which imitates the voice, a guitar.

From the north and Italy are well known to medieval poetry sung known as “Stanze.” This is done by the “poet Contamine Dini” or “farmers” poet “, serving mainly poems of the Greek poet Homer or the famous Italian poet Dante. These poems were, in general, are characterized by a modern poetry, address political or social issues. Of all the poetry, Italy, Tuscany Folk Poetry is regarded as the closest in the form and style of the great operatic culture.

Southern Folk Songs:
Folk musical tradition in southern Italy includes religious music. The songs are subject to rates depends on the nature of the disease. A famous dance popular as “Tarantella” is healing the bite of the “Lycosa Tarantula.” In such a dancer herself exhausted by its performance and pace of the music and singing are unique to the exact nature of the spider. The Puglia region is the homeland of bands very rare, even in collaboration with jazz musicians.

Sicilian folk songs:
Sicily, music varied and is considered the homeland of a large variety of religious communities, Christian music, “Chapel” chants of devotion, a form of music, where singers sing without instrumental accompaniment. There are many bands to play songs from different directories. Sicilian also the music consists of songs of the harvest and work songs dedicated to farmland.

Sicily historical ties with mainland Italy and in previous days, with Greeks, Normans, Spanish and french make his music varied. For this reason, there is a unique fusion of musical elements of the island.