Canzone Napoletana

The Neapolitan folk music (in Neapolitan: A ' Canzon Napulitana ) is in the Neapolitan dialect written and is already established in the Middle Ages. There are songs for dreaming (including love songs ) and fast (such as the tarantella ).

History

The mix of classical music and folk music, the older Neapolitan folk music emerged.

In the 19th century came the breakthrough. 1839, the song Te voglio bene assaje from the text by Raffaele Sacco, composer Filippo Campanella. The fact that later spread the legend, Gaetano Donizetti was the author illustrates the proximity of this song type to Italian opera of the time, which is also evidenced by the continuing popularity of songs like " O Sole Mio " in the famous tenors program. Te voglio bene assaje was presented at the Festa di Piedigrotta on 7 September 1839.

Another great "classics " of the canzone napoletana in the 19th century are

Santa Lucia ( 1848), by Teodoro Cottrau and Enrico Cossovich;

Funiculì, Funiculà (1880 ), by Luigi Denza, text Peppino Turco;

Marechiare (1885), by Francesco Paolo Tosti, text Salvatore Di Giacomo;

Era de Maggio (1885), by Mario Pasquale Costa, text Salvatore Di Giacomo;

Scetate (1887 ), by Mario Pasquale Costa, text Ferdinando Russo;

Comme te voglio AMA (1887 ), by Vincenzo Valente;

'E spingole fran sailed (1888), by Enrico De Leva, text Salvatore Di Giacomo;

Lariulà (1888), by Mario Pasquale Costa, text Salvatore Di Giacomo;

Catari (1892 ), by Mario Pasquale Costa, text Salvatore Di Giacomo;

'A vucchella (1892 ), by Francesco Paolo Tosti, text Gabriele D'Annunzio;

Carcioffolà (1893 ), by Eduardo Di Capua, Text Salvatore Di Giacomo;

Serenata napulitana (1897 ), by Mario Pasquale Costa, text Salvatore Di Giacomo;

Maria Marì (1899), by Eduardo Di Capua, Text Vincenzo Russo;

Many of these songs appeared in Neapolitan music publisher of Ferdinando Bideri (1851 - 1930), who has a lot of original material of the canzone napoletana today. Baron Bideri held lyricists such as Libero Bovio, EA Mario, Ernesto Murolo, Salvatore Di Giacomo, Ferdinando Russo, Rocco Galdieri, Pasquale Cinquegrana and Edoardo Nicolardi under contract, under dn composers who worked for him are Mario Costa, Eduardo Di Capua, Vincenzo Valente, Salvatore Gambardella, Ernesto De Curtis, Vincenzo De Crescenzo and Francesco Buongiovanni mentioned.

Since the 1950s, is also danced by this music. Old melodies were provided with rhythm and have thus lost their original character. An interesting development of the Neapolitan folk music with young bands such as Recorded Almamegretta, in which case the "Old " to newer trends in music such as dub, trip hop and world music encounters.