Italian Music

Between 1876 and 1924, more than 4.5 million Italian immigrants arrived in the United States, tradition, food, literature and massive Italian culture slowly spread all over the country. With this, Italian music was brought into the ocean. As the number of immigrants and inhabitants has increased, the music of New York began to develop rapidly in the 19th century. Italian music has become a popular genre with many subdivisions. Italian music has become an influential kind of music for other kinds of popular music.

It seems that Italian music has always been known for its lyrical or melodic features. It can be traced back to many aspects of the 14th century. The Italian secular music of this era (what kind of existing ceremonial music except French symbols, resembles French), two (or one, fair) support of luxurious top And it is characterized by the so-called cantalina style The sound of Italian Trentem music is only two sounds, more conventional, the speed of movement is slow. This type of texture is a characteristic of Italian music of popular secular genres from the 15th century to the 16th century and had a great influence on the final development of the texture of the 17th century music revolutionary trio.

The opera of Giusuppe Verdi (1813-1901) dominated Italian music from the 1840s to the 1880s. Like many composers from the middle to the late 19th century, Verdi was an enthusiastic nationalist who believed that the music written by Italians should be a special Italian style. This style is based on a song called Belcanto (exquisite singing). Verdi also used a number of stage choruses, often creating overlapping scenes of soloists and choirs. Verdi's readings are accompanied by a complete orchestra, and a continuous orchestra continues more than the 18th century lyric poetry, rather than the harpsichord-accompanied aria. In this scene from a camellia woman, spurred Alfredo condemned his former boyfriend Violetta as disloyal and insincere Violetta took action to protect Alfredo's surname. (Please speak long!)