Canzone napoletana ( Italian: [kanˈtsoːne napoleˈtaːna] ; Neapolitan : canzona napulitana [kanˈdzoːnə napuliˈtɑːnə] ), sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song , is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language , ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, although well represented by female soloists as well, and expressed in familiar genres such as the love song and serenade . Many of the songs are about the nostalgic longing for Naples as it once was. The genre consists of a large body of composed popular music—such songs as " 'O sole mio "; " Torna a Surriento "; " Funiculì, Funiculà "; " Santa Lucia " and others.
16-640: The Neapolitan song became a formal institution in the 1830s due to an annual song-writing competition for the Festival of Piedigrotta , dedicated to the Madonna of Piedigrotta, a well-known church in the Mergellina area of Naples. The winner of the first festival was a song entitled "Te voglio bene assaje"; it is traditionally attributed to the prominent opera composer Gaetano Donizetti , although an article published in 1984 by Marcello Sorce Keller shows there
32-597: A Latin-American band. In 1983 Daniele collaborated with the American singer/guitarist Richie Havens on Common Ground , an album written and played together. His interest in Arabic music is emphasized on Bonne Soirée (1987), while the subsequent Schizzechea With Love (1988) was more Mediterranean-oriented. In the same year he started a collaboration with the Italian actor and director Massimo Troisi : Daniele completed
48-598: A blend of Neapolitan songs and dub/trip hop, with the former appearing in a song with the Bristol duo Massive Attack . An important factor in defining what makes a Neapolitan song is the matter of language. All these songs are written and performed in the Neapolitan language . Although the music is sung by many non-Neapolitan singers, it is difficult to sing correctly without knowledge of the Neapolitan dialect, which
64-655: A full CD Italia ti amo of traditional and some more modern Neapolitan and Italian songs. Luciano Pavarotti recorded three albums of Neapolitan and Italian songs: The Best: Disc 2 , (2005), Pavarotti Songbook , (1991), and Romantica , (2002). Mario Lanza recorded an acclaimed selection of 12 Neapolitan songs on his 1959 album, Mario! Lanza at His Best . Opera/pop crossover tenor, Sergio Franchi recorded his very popular Billboard Top 25 RCA debut album, Romantic Italian Songs in 1962, and continued to record Neapolitan songs on most of his albums throughout his career. Andrea Bocelli recorded an album in 2009 dedicated to
80-433: A mix of tarantella , blues and rumba . His lyrics also attracted critical praise: written and sung in an intense Neapolitan , they contained strong and bitter accusations against the social injustices of Naples, as well as Italian society in general, and included melancholic personal themes. Several of the later songs are characterized by a free intermingling of English, Italian and Neapolitan passages. Daniele's talent
96-502: Is crucial in obtaining the correct inflection. The matter of dialect has not prevented a few non-Neapolitans from writing dialect versions of Neapolitan songs. The most famous examples of this are 'A vucchella by Gabriele D'Annunzio and Tu sì 'na cosa grande by Domenico Modugno . Piedigrotta Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
112-503: Is no historical evidence in support of the attribution. The festival ran regularly until 1950, when it was abandoned. A subsequent Festival of Neapolitan Song on Italian state radio enjoyed some success in the 1950s but was eventually abandoned as well. The period since 1950 has produced such songs as " Malafemmena " by Totò , " Maruzzella [ it ] " by Renato Carosone , "Indifferentemente" by Mario Trevi and "Carmela" by Sergio Bruni . Although separated by some decades from
128-575: The Metropolitan Opera in New York in the early 1900s. Caruso also recorded many of these songs, which subsequently became part of the standard repertoire for operatic tenors, and which were performed and recorded by such notable singers as Beniamino Gigli , Francesco Albanese , Franco Corelli , Mario Del Monaco , Giuseppe Di Stefano , and Tito Schipa . The Three Tenors also performed popular songs from Naples. Plácido Domingo recorded
144-533: The Neapolitan musical milieu, including James Senese , Enzo Avitabile , Tullio De Piscopo and Tony Esposito , as session men on his albums has also been widely praised. In 1982, Daniele shifted to a personal and early version of world music : in Bella 'mbriana musicians such as Alphonso Johnson and Wayne Shorter appeared as guest players. In the following year Daniele held a concert in Havana , and later formed
160-462: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 257020292 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:59:35 GMT Pino Daniele Giuseppe Daniele (19 March 1955 – 4 January 2015), known as Pino Daniele , was an Italian singer, songwriter and musician. His influences covered a wide number of genres, including pop, blues, jazz, and Italian and Middle Eastern music. Daniele
176-403: The earlier classics of this genre, they have now become Neapolitan "classics" in their own right. Many of the Neapolitan songs are world-famous because they were taken abroad by emigrants from Naples and southern Italy, roughly between 1880 and 1920. The music also was popularized abroad by performers such as Enrico Caruso , who took to singing the popular music of his native city as encores at
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#1732791574852192-420: The music; his collection of twelve LPs , released in the 1960s, is an annotated compendium of Neapolitan song dating back to the twelfth century. Representatives of different veins, but nevertheless leading the continuing tradition of song in Neapolitan, are the jazz-rock singer-songwriter Pino Daniele and the folkloric group Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare ; Almamegretta and 99 posse are representative of
208-755: The soundtracks for Troisi's films Le vie del Signore sono finite and Pensavo fosse amore invece era un calesse . Non calpestare i fiori nel deserto , released in Spring 1995, is an attempt to revive inspiration through African and Ethnic influences, and sold more than 800,000 copies. The subsequent tour ended with a double date with Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny . In 2010, Daniele played at Crossroads Guitar Festival , called by his friend Eric Clapton at Toyota Park in Chicago, playing with Joe Bonamassa and Robert Randolph . In 2011, he performed in concert with Clapton at Cava de' Tirreni stadium. Daniele died of
224-411: The style, entitled Incanto . The most important native Neapolitan performers of Neapolitan songs in the last few decades include Roberto Murolo , Bruno Venturini , Mario Trevi , Mario Abbate , Mario Merola , Giulietta Sacco , Franco Ricci , Sergio Bruni , Renato Carosone , and Mario Maglione . Murolo is known not only as a singer and guitarist, but also as a composer, scholar and collector of
240-469: Was born to a working-class family in Naples , his father being a harbor worker. A self-taught guitarist, he began his career as a musician playing for other successful singers of the 1970s. His debut in the Italian music world was in 1977 with the album Terra mia , which proved to be a successful mix of Neapolitan tradition and Blues sounds. Daniele defined his music with the term "tarumbò", which indicated
256-564: Was confirmed on the following album Pino Daniele (1979). He scored his greatest success in 1980, with Nero a metà ("Half-Black"), which was noted by some authorities as the hallmark of the rebirth of Neapolitan song . In that year Daniele opened the Bob Marley concert at the San Siro stadium in Milan . In 1981 Vai Mo was released. The presence of some of the most renowned musicians of
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