Vocabulary Popular music + Neapolitan song PDF

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Vocabulary: Popular music + Neapolitan song insurrectional= uprising Tonality= musical key Falsetto= high singing voice Melisms= a group of notes or tones sung on one syllable in plainsong (popular in southern Italy) Villanelle= a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. The melodrama= a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions The mutu / The mutettu= a type of improvised sung poetry from Sardinia armonica a bocca= harmonica: north Italy Organetto/ fisarmonica= accordion: south Italy Fregamusone= no translation!: North Italy Piffero= fife- North Italy corno alpino= alpine horn: North Italy mandolino= mandolin: North Italy zampogna= bagpipe: South Italy ocarina= no translation, type of wind instrument: South Italy siringa= pan flute: South Italy

tamburi a frizione= friction drums: South Italy chitarra battente= rhythm guitar: South Italy raganella= cog rattle: South Italy scacciapensieri= jaw harp: South Italy launeddas= Sardinian triple pipe ciaramella= shawm (medieval oboe)= Sardinian trallallero= polyphonic folk music from the Ligurian region of Genoa, in northern Italy. It is traditionally performed by men, though there are some female performers in the modern era. The name derives from the monosyllabic vocals (non-lexical vocalizations), tra-la-la strambotto= one of the oldest Italian verse forms, composed of a single stanza of either six or eight hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) lines. Strambotti were particularly popular in Renaissance Sicily and Tuscany. We also see it in Venezia stornello= a type of short Italian rhyming poem or song which usually contains three lines *rispetto(respect) is typically 8 lines. We see it in Tuscany...