What name is given to the traditional type of folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers?
"the second movement of Villa-Lobos's Trio No. 2 (1915) (which contains a Berceuse-Barcarolla); the first movement of Francis Poulenc's ""Napoli"" suite for solo piano (1925); George Gershwin's ""Dance of the Waves"" (1937, unpublished); Ned Rorem's three Barcarolles for piano, composed in Morocco (1949); the first movement of Nikolai Myaskovsky's Piano Sonata no. 8, op. 83 (1949); ""The Kings' Barcarolle"" from Leonard Bernstein's ""Candide"" (1956); and ""Agony"" from Stephen Sondheim's ""Into the Woods"". Barcarolle A barcarolle (from French, also barcarole; originally, Italian barcarola or barcaruola, from ""barca"" 'boat') is a traditional folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers, or a piece of"
"Gondola The gondola (, ; ) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon. It is similar to a canoe, except it is narrower. It is propelled by a gondolier, who uses a rowing oar, which is not fastened to the hull, in a sculling manner and acts as the rudder. For centuries, the gondola was a major means of transportation and the most common watercraft within Venice. In modern times, the boats still do have a role in public transport in the city, serving as ""traghetti"" (small ferries) over the Grand"
"Gondoliers can no longer sing well, contrary to the belief that 'gondoliers are the greatest singers of the world' (although he states this as being relative). Luigi is an aspiring gondolier in Venice. Though he is a talented boatman, he's a horrible singer. In fact, he's so awful that people get stomach cramps and migraines just listening to him. Because the gondoliers have their reputation as the best singers in the world to uphold and customers expect it as part of the service, a tone-deaf gondolier is unacceptable, no matter how skilled he is with his oar. However, Luigi dreams"
"core of the piece has much more to do with British society than with Venice. Gondola The gondola (, ; ) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon. It is similar to a canoe, except it is narrower. It is propelled by a gondolier, who uses a rowing oar, which is not fastened to the hull, in a sculling manner and acts as the rudder. For centuries, the gondola was a major means of transportation and the most common watercraft within Venice. In modern times, the boats still do have a"
"Canzone Napoletana Canzone napoletana (), 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. The Neapolitan song became a"
"Venetian Gondolas Venetian Gondolas is a gondola ride at Tokyo DisneySea theme park. It is located at the Mediterranean Harbor area. Each gondola is steered by two gondoliers and has a seating capacity for 16 guests. The gondola will be steered out into a canal that leads to the Mediterranean Harbor. Guests will be asked by the gondoliers to say ""Ciao!"" to other gondola guests or the DisneySea Transit Steamer Line guests. The gondoliers will also sing a song as the gondola returns to the loading area. The ride lasts for about 11.5 minutes. Venetian Gondolas do not operate when"
"All the gondoliers witness this and they talk about it all night. After the storm, the Queen of Corsica visits. She requests a gondolier to sing as she is on the boat on a Royal visit. George the gondolier starts to sing O sole mio, but he sings terribly to the queen's disgust. Everyone discovers that all gondoliers have started to sing terribly from thereon, and so much so no one requested the singing anymore. Luigi is reinstated as a gondolier, without the expectation that he must sing. After a long, successful career and happy life, as with all gondoliers"
"a sea serpent on its tip. The gondola was restored by Gianfranco “Crea” Vianello, a Venetian gondola builder from the island of Giudecca, who has supported Hai in his pursuit to become a gondolier and mentored him in fine-tuning his rowing technique. Hai chose the Venetian language verse as the theme for his gondola: ""E la luna nassara’ per sognar un altro di’"" (And the moon will be born to dream of another day). In October 2006, the city of Venice enacted a law that forbade the circulation of gondoliers without public licence. The ordinance was considered by the local"
"shows are being set up and performed in Mediterranean Harbor. Venetian Gondolas Venetian Gondolas is a gondola ride at Tokyo DisneySea theme park. It is located at the Mediterranean Harbor area. Each gondola is steered by two gondoliers and has a seating capacity for 16 guests. The gondola will be steered out into a canal that leads to the Mediterranean Harbor. Guests will be asked by the gondoliers to say ""Ciao!"" to other gondola guests or the DisneySea Transit Steamer Line guests. The gondoliers will also sing a song as the gondola returns to the loading area. The ride lasts"
"Funiculì, Funiculà ""Funiculì, Funiculà"" () is a famous Neapolitan song composed in 1880 by Luigi Denza to lyrics by Peppino Turco. It was written to commemorate the opening of the first funicular cable car on Mount Vesuvius. It was presented by Turco and Denza at the Piedigrotta festival the same year. The sheet music was published by Ricordi and sold over a million copies within a year. Since its publication, it has been widely adapted and recorded. ""Funiculì, Funiculà"" was composed in 1880 in Castellammare di Stabia, the home town of the song's composer, Luigi Denza; the lyrics were contributed"
"friezes can be seen in-between the six prongs, indicating the three main islands of the city: Murano, Burano and Torcello. The gondola is also one of the vessels typically used in both ceremonial and competitive regattas, rowing races held amongst gondoliers using the technique of Voga alla Veneta. During their heyday as a means of public transports, teams of four men would share ownership of a gondola — three oarsmen (""gondoliers"") and a fourth person, primarily shore based and responsible for the booking and administration of the gondola (""Il Rosso Riserva""). However, as the gondolas became more of a tourist"
"Finally the voice of Caramello is heard from the gondola singing the gondolier's song. Delacqua helps into the gondola the masked figure he believes to be his wife and he bids her farewell as the Duke looks on with keen anticipation. A group of sailors appear and, with Enrico at their head, they sing a serenade to Delacqua for his birthday the following day. While Delacqua is on the balcony thanking the singers, Barbara slips out to join Enrico. The birthday serenade merges with the sound of Caramello's gondola song as night falls on Venice and the disguised Caramello glides"
"popular throughout Italy. Notable among these local traditions was the ""canzone Napoletana""—the Neapolitan Song. Although there are anonymous, documented songs from Naples from many centuries ago, the term, ""canzone Napoletana"" now generally refers to a large body of relatively recent, composed popular music—such songs as ""'O sole mio"", ""Torna a Surriento"", and ""Funiculi Funicula"". In the 18th century, many composers, including Alessandro Scarlatti, Leonardo Vinci, and Giovanni Paisiello, contributed to the Neapolitan tradition by using the local language for the texts of some of their comic operas. Later, others—most famously Gaetano Donizetti—composed Neapolitan songs that garnered great renown in Italy"
"said of Venice in 1898, ""Their streets are canals, their carriages are gondolas and sandolos..."" Sandolo The sandolo is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat designed for the generally shallow waters of the Venetian Lagoon. The plural is sandoli. A sandolo is of a much simpler build than a gondola but also has a pointed, decorated metal nose. It is also lighter and smaller than a gondola, and can be recognized at a glance, as it always lacks the benches and high steel prow (called ""ferro"") which is seen on a gondola. The sandolo, like the larger craft, is rowed"
"a gondola, it has a rocking motion all of its own. Although not often used for fishing, as such, the craft is used for collecting crabs and mussels, while an early 20th-century writer noted that he had heard the sandolo called ""the donkey cart of Venice"". The boat has also been called ""without doubt one of if not the most graceful of all Venetian craft"". Less manoevrable but lighter than a gondola, it was in the past used especially by boys, artists, and women. In ""Gondola Days"" (1897), Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838–1915) stated that the sandolo was ""the only boat"
"poems of Giacomino da Verona and Bonvicino da Riva were specially religious, and were intended to be recited to the people. They were written in a dialect of Milanese and Venetian; their style bore the influence of French narrative poetry. They may be considered as belonging to the ""popular"" kind of poetry, taking the word, however, in a broad sense. This sort of composition may have been encouraged by the old custom in the north of Italy of listening in the piazzas and on the highways to the songs of the jongleurs. The crowds were delighted with the stories of"
"the tight spaces of Venetian canals. Gondoliers dress in a blue or red striped top, red neckerchief, wide-brimmed straw hat and dark pants. A gondolier can earn the equivalent of up to US$150,000 per year. In August 2010, Giorgia Boscolo became Venice's first fully licensed female gondolier. Alex Hai had begun work in gondolas earlier than Boscolo, in 2007, as Alexandra, but not with a full license because of failures to pass various tests. In June 2017, Hai came out as transgender and said that he had been working ""in the body of a woman"". Hai is the first openly"
"The Silent Gondoliers The Silent Gondoliers () is a 1983 novel written by William Goldman, under the pseudonym of ""S. Morgenstern"", about why the gondoliers of Venice no longer sing through the tale of the protagonist Luigi. The tale of Luigi actually starts in Chapter III and the previous chapters I and II build up further mythology behind the name Morgenstern and the backstory of Gondolierian history. It has the trademark humour of Goldman, and the unexpected fairy tale twist akin to an anti-fairy tale as the characters never end up as what we imagined or expect in fairy tales."
"contralto and a singer whose voice imitates a guitar (""chitarra""). As the names of parts suggest, the imitation of instrumental styles replaces traditional vocal polyphony: this is a distinguishing feature of this genre. Nine singers are considered a normal line-up: one each of chitarra, tenor, contralto, baritone and five basses. Group harmony in Liguria is historically associated with mountain villages, where two voices (usually a tenor and a baritone) sung over accompaniment by bass or drone. A repertoire of traditional songs evolved over time, and the style moved to the docks of Genoa, a noted port city. There, metal-workers, longshoremen"
"Canal operated by two oarsmen. For some years there were seven traghetti, but by 2017, the number had been reduced to three. Various types of gondola boats are also used in special regattas (rowing races) held amongst gondoliers. Their primary role today, however, is to carry tourists on rides at fixed rates. There are approximately 400 licensed gondoliers in Venice and a similar number of boats, down from the thousands that travelled the canals centuries ago. However, they are now elegant craft, instead of the various types of shabby homemade boats of the distant past. The gondola is propelled by"
"actually a set of variations on a single melody—a folk hymn sung to Liszt by a gondolier in Venice in the late 1830s. Among the most significant revisions Liszt made was the addition of a middle section in the vein of a minuet. The theme of the minuet was, again, a variant of the gondolier's folk hymn, thus becoming another example of thematic transformation. Calmer than either of the outer sections, it was intended to depict Tasso's more stable years in the employment of the Este family in Ferrara. In a margin note, Liszt informs the conductor that the orchestra"
"The only gondole still in common use by Venetians are the ""traghetti"", foot passenger ferries crossing the Grand Canal at certain points without bridges. Other gondole target tourists on an hourly basis. The Venice People Mover (managed by ASM) is a cable-operated public transit system connecting Tronchetto island with Piazzale Roma. Water taxis are also active. Lido and Pellestrina are two islands forming a barrier between the southern Venetian Lagoon and the Adriatic Sea. In those islands, road traffic is allowed. There are bus services on islands and waterbus services linking islands with other islands (Venice, Murano, Burano) and with"
"the song ""Sotto il velo del cielo"", and toured extensively. Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare The Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare (literally ""New Company of Folk Song""), also known by the acronym NCCP, is an Italian folk group, founded in Naples in 1969. The musical project was founded by musicians Eugenio Bennato, Carlo D’Angiò and Giovanni Mauriello with the aim of research and spread ancient traditional music from Campania and more generally from South Italy. Thanks to the enconter with the ethnomusicologist Roberto De Simone, the group eventually focused their research on Neapolitan vocal genres from the 15th and 16th"
"The Gondoliers The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 7 December 1889 and ran for a very successful 554 performances (at that time the fifth longest-running piece of musical theatre in history), closing on 30 June 1891. This was the twelfth comic opera collaboration of fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan. The story of the opera concerns the young bride of the heir to the throne of the fictional kingdom of Barataria who arrives in Venice to join her"
"years there were seven such boats but by 2017, only three remained. There are approximately 400 licensed gondoliers in Venice in their distinctive regalia and a similar number of the boats, down from 10,000 that travelled the canals two centuries ago. Many gondolas are lushly appointed with crushed velvet seats and Persian rugs. Less well-known is the smaller sandolo. At the front of each gondola that works in the city, there is a large piece of metal called the ""fèro"" (iron). Its shape has evolved through the centuries, as documented in many well-known paintings. Its form, topped by a likeness"
"the pseudonym Pierluigi Galli, has added other vocal parts to harmonize it as a choral piece for men's choir. It has been translated into 148 languages. Toni Ortelli Antonio ""Toni"" Ortelli (November 25, 1904 in Schio, Italy – March 3, 2000 in Schio) was an Italian alpinist, conductor and composer from the Veneto. Ortelli is well known in the southern Alps regions of Italy, Austria and Switzerland for being the composer of the famous Trentino folk song ""La Montanara"" (The Song of the Mountains). Ortelli, according to his own account, conceived the melody and lyrics in 1927 while being on"
"Bandiera Rossa Bandiera Rossa (Italian for ""Red Flag""), often also called Avanti Popolo after its opening words (also to avoid any confusion with The three flags, another socialist song) is one of the most famous songs of the Italian labour movement. It glorifies the red flag, symbol of the socialist and communist movement. The text was written by Carlo Tuzzi in 1908; the melody is taken from two Lombard folk songs. Apart from the first Italian text, there are several variants which are identified with certain socialist or communist parties. The last two lines """"Evviva il comunismo e la libertà"""""
"Barbapedana Barbapedana (Milanese: Barbapedanna) is a word of uncertain origin that refers to a Milanese minstrel and cantastorie (""story singer"") that sang in such places as ""trani"" (the Milanese traditional ""osterie"", i.e., pubs). While the word ""barbapedana"" dates back at least to the 17th century, ""the Barbapedana"" per antonomasia was Enrico Molaschi, active in the late 19th century. Many rhymes from his repertoire have remained in the popular culture of Milan; for example, this is the case for the lines that Barbapedana sang to describe himself (such as ""Barbapedanna el gh'aveva on gilé / Rott per denanz e strasciaa per"
"on a traditional repertoire. Other Italian folk song traditions are less common than ballads and lyric songs. Strophic, religious ""laude"", sometimes in Latin, are still occasionally performed, and epic songs are also known, especially those of the ""maggio"" celebration. Professional female singers perform dirges similar in style to those elsewhere in Europe. Yodeling exists in northern Italy, though it is most commonly associated with the folk musics of other Alpine nations. The Italian Carnival is associated with several song types, especially the Carnival of Bagolino, Brescia. Choirs and brass bands are a part of the mid-Lenten holiday, while the begging"
"use. Dio vi salvi Regina Dio vi salvi Regina (Italian for ""God save you Queen"") is a folk song in the culture of Corsica. The local nationalists also consider it the ""de facto"" ""national anthem"" of Corsica. It is customary to sing it at the end of any concert of Corsican folk music. It was written as a religious song in Italy by Francis de Geronimo (later canonized) about 1675. It was adopted ""de facto"" as the national anthem of Corsica when it proclaimed independence from the Republic of Genoa at Orezza, on 30 January 1735. Traditionally, a shepherd, Salvadore"
"prorà"" or ""dolfin"", is needed to balance the weight of the gondolier at the stern and has an ""Ƨ"" shape symbolic of the twists in the Canal Grande. Under the main blade there is a kind of comb with six teeth or prongs (""rebbi"") pointing forward standing for the six districts or ""sestieri"" of Venice. A kind of tooth juts out backwards toward the centre of the gondola symbolises the island of Giudecca. The curved top signifies the Doge's cap. The semi-circular break between the curved top and the six teeth is said to represent the Rialto Bridge. Sometimes three"
"Traveller community – a community renowned for its boxers, both bare knuckle and professional. The song was popular with Canadian soldiers in World War II. The song is about the singer's brother Sylveste, hyperbolically described as a man of legendary strength capable of extraordinary feats, such as swimming from New York to Italy, drinking all the water in the sea, playing every instrument in a brass band, and averting the sinking of ""Lusitania"". Artists and groups who have recorded the song include: Big Strong Man ""Big Strong Man"" or ""My Brother Sylveste"" is an English-language folk song, commonly associated with"
"of paths around the volcano that are maintained by the park authorities on weekends. There is access by road to within of the summit (measured vertically), but thereafter access is on foot only. There is a spiral walkway around the volcano from the road to the crater. The first funicular cable car on Mount Vesuvius opened in 1880. It was later destroyed by the March 1944 eruption. ""Funiculì, Funiculà"", a famous Neapolitan language song with lyrics by journalist Peppino Turco set to music by composer Luigi Denza, commemorates its opening. Mount Vesuvius Mount Vesuvius (; ; ; ; also '"