Domenico Modugno was one of the greatest italian composers and singer of the 50's, 60's and 70's, he also recorded in spanish and became very popular throughout his lifetime. Modugno’s song Volare, was selected as the Italian entry to the well known Eurovision Song Contest in 1958. This award winning song portrays a man infatuated with his lover flying across the sky. Part of the song lyrics translated means, "I think that a dream like that will never return; I painted my hands and my face blue
wide range of notes that can be sung by the soprano, the bass and everyone in between. The parts of the poem sung by the full choir would be done in an imitative polyphony texture utilizing malismas on the repeated line “Leonardo, Leonardo, viene á volare” to accentuate the fact that this line is a “siren-song” sung by “the very air itself.” However, the majority of the text would be sung by the tenor to give the piece a story telling quality, with the rest of the choir chiming in for the Italian parts
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standards. Throug... ... middle of paper ... ...talistic world, but how to satisfy more than one cultural group. This is not the first time we have seen something like this though. In 1958, Dean Martin recorded on of his biggest hits by recording “Volare”. The importance of this song is found not only in the fact that it is an original Italian song, but that it is recorded incorporating both English and Italian into the song at the same time. Frank Sinatra also tried this same approach in 1967. He