1 / 8

Italian Musical Loan Words

Italian Musical Loan Words. 97501022 Sharon Lien. Why are there so many musical words came from Italian?. Western music began from Church music. From 6 century Pope Gregory I’s Gregorian Chant , Church had great influence over music.

jin-ratliff
Download Presentation

Italian Musical Loan Words

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Italian Musical Loan Words 97501022 Sharon Lien

  2. Why are there so many musical words came from Italian? • Western music began from Church music. From 6 century Pope Gregory I’s Gregorian Chant, Church had great influence over music.

  3. Because early in the fourteen century, people in Florence begin to used Italian create their music works, and many early musician in Renaissance are Italians. Italian musical terms spread widely in Europe. • Mozart had use German to create his works, but people think it was not elegant since Italian is more similar to Latin. After this tragedy, people all used Italian to create music works.

  4. Musical words originated from Italian– 16 century

  5. Musical words originated from Italian– 17 century

  6. Musical words originated from Italian– 17 century

  7. Musical words originated from Italian– 18 century

  8. Conclusion • Since the early development in music, there are many musical terms originated from Italy. • Because music is still developing, there are more and more musical terms that are not from Italian.

More Related