WorldMusic

Southern Europe

41 genres

Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece. The region is the birthplace of Italian Opera, Spanish Flamenco, Portuguese Fado, and Greek Rebetiko — four song traditions built around a solo voice carrying the emotional weight of the music.

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  • ClassicalOpera Buffa18世紀イタリアの喜歌劇。市民的日常と滑稽な人物像を題材に、軽妙なアリアと、複数の歌手が同時に歌う重唱で展開する。
  • ClassicalOpera Seria去勢した男性歌手(カストラート)がスーパースターだった、18世紀イタリアの正歌劇(セリア=まじめなオペラ)。神話や古代史の英雄を題材に、超絶技巧と即興で飾り立てるアリアで聴衆を熱狂させた。
  • Latin & CaribbeanRumba FlamencaSpanish guitar style — a Cuban rumba refracted through Andalusian flamenco, popular from 1970s Catalonia.
  • Folk & WorldFadoポルトガルギターの倍音が震え、たった一人の声が運命と喪失を歌う——19世紀のリスボン下町に生まれた、サウダーデ(あきらめと郷愁が溶け合った感情)の歌。
  • Electronic & DanceItalo DiscoSynth-driven European disco with robotic basslines, drum machines, and accented English vocals.
  • Rock & MetalRock Progressivo Italiano1970s Italian prog where classical structure, jazz, and Mediterranean melody dissolve into one another.
  • Folk & WorldCantautoriItaly's literary singer-songwriter tradition, built on the weight of the words.
  • Rock & MetalMovida MadrileñaThe explosive cultural and musical movement of post-Franco Madrid (new wave, synth-pop, punk), a burst of freedom after the dictatorship.
  • Folk & WorldÉntekhno'Art-popular' Greek song that set major poets to bouzouki-based orchestration; Theodorakis fused high poetry with the people's instrument and became a symbol of resistance to the junta.
  • Folk & WorldLaïkóGreek urban popular song descended from rebetiko, built on the bouzouki; the everyday music of postwar Greece.

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