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For many years I have been specializing in Italian music -- listening, collecting recordings, and occasionally reading about it. Music is a passion of mine and I have been writing a book.

Presently in the USA, the music scene is quite inane. The popular rap and hip-hop music are below the level of my esthetic sensitivity. The radio stations which broadcast a lot of music restrict themselves to practically American and contemporary pop music. Only one station broadcasts classical music -- within a limited range.

I hope that Europeans of the various nationalities present specific music works which they listen to and consider worth sharing. We should all bring back to life the great achievements of the past. It's not "nationalistic" songs that I am advocating; I am advocating a return to the great European past, without dismissing the few good products of the present.

The following historical outline of Italian music (and some musicians) can serve only as an initial guide for those who hardly famililiar with European history:

HISTORICAL OUTLINE OF ITALIAN MUSIC

>
>I. ANCIENT MUSIC (Up to the death of Maxentius in 312,
>which signaled the end of the life of ancient Rome and
>Roman Italy)
>-- A couple of original songs survive.
>-- Music surving in Gregorian and Ambrosian
>"contrafactures" [adopting new texts to old tunes].
>-- Music pieces of the Roman type archeologically
>reconstructed in the late 20th century.
>
>II. MEDIEVAL MUSIC (From the conquest of Christianized
>Constantine in 312 to the last pseudo-Roman emperor
>who descended into Italy and died there 1313).
>-- Monophonic music before the 14th century (in
>Latin).
>-- Polyphonic music before the 14th century (in
>Latin).
>-- The complex 13th century. The emergence of poetry
>and of vocal music in Italian.
>
>III. MODERN MUSIC (From the 14th century through the
>present)
>
>-- Phase 1: Renaissance music or Proto-Classicism: The
>growth of tonal music: vocal, instrumental, and dance
>music till near the end of the 16th century.
>
>-- Phase 2: The beginning of High Classical music near
>the end of the 16th century and its growth and
>diversification throughout the 19th century.
>-- -- Aspect 1: Baroque music (beginning with the
>invention of vocal-instrumental dramatic music [the
>opera]).
>-- -- Aspect 2: Mid-Classicism (the 18th century)
>[contemporary of the Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven
>classicism].
>-- -- Aspect 3: Super-Classicism (the 19th century).
>-- -- Aspect 4: Romanticism (the 19th century).
>-- -- Aspect 5: The Resurgence Music (across 1900).
>
>-- Phase 3: Eclectic music (20th century and beyond)
>[comprising Classical, Futuristic, Atonal,
>Para-Classical music]. / Classical pop, Rhythmic pop,
>Jazz, Rock, Alternative.
>


======= EXCELLENT COMPOSERS ======
(14th-21st century)

CLASSICAL:

Landini
Corteccia
Palestrina
Andrea Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli
Caccini
Peri
Monteverdi
Cavalli
Stradella
Provenzale
Corelli
Alessandro Scarlatti
Torelli
Durante
Vinci
Alessandro Marcello
Albinoni
Benedetto Marcello
Vivaldi
Locatelli
Tartini
Pergolesi
Porpora
Galuppi
Domenico Scarlatti
Giambattista Sammartino
Giovanni Battista Martini
Jomelli
Sarti
Boccherini
Cambini
Traetta
Piccinni
Sacchini
Guglielmi
Viotti
Salieri
Paisiello
Cimarosa
Clementi
Cherubini
Spontini
Rossini
Paganini
Donizetti
Mercadante
Bellini
Verdi
Sgambati
Martucci
Catalani
Mascagni
Cilea
Puccini
Respighi
Malipiero
Pizzetti
Perosi
Ghedini
Petrassi
Scelsi
Berio

ALTERNATIVE ROCK (ensembles):

Epsilon Indi
Ataraxia
Anima in fiamme
Argine
Nightmare Lodge
Alio Die
Gothica
Nobody
Lupercalia


ITALIAN-AMERICAN [all types of music]:
==
Jim Croce
Frank Zappa
Mazzacane
==
Barili
Piston
Giannini
Creston
Persichetti
Flagello
Argento
Corigliano
Iannacone
Ticheli
Anton Coppola
==
Bavicchi
Martino
Martirano

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Good work Amedeo.

If you're interested, here are a few links to Polish music I posted on Stirpes:

Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Polish Early Music
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--- MUSICAL JOURNEY IN ITALY ---

GIOVANNI SOLLIMA (contemporary major composer, born in Sicily):
Viaggio in Italia (= Journey in Italy).
CD label: Agora. Mostly instrumental music. Late 20th century.

Tracks with his titles and comments of mine (for the most part):

-1- Federico II (= Frederick II). // That is the emperor who ruled in
1220-50. In his court in Palermo, Sicily, he gathered people from all
over Italy who had begun writing poetry in Italian. (The earliest
instances of poetry in Italian are those of Francis of Assisi, 1182-
1226.) Formerly, the literate language was Latin. In Medieval Europe,
the people who composed poetry in their vulgate (people's daily
spoken) languages were the Moors in Spain, followed in poetry and
music by the troubadours in Provence, followed by the Italian poets
and the trouvers in France. The 14th century has two of the greatest
Italian poets, Dante and Petrarca; the other greatest are Tasso,
Ariosto, and Leopardi.

-2- Giotto - Dante. // The starters of the cultural Renaissance of
Italy, in the 14th century, are Giotto the painter, Dante the poet,
Andrea Pisani the sculptor, and Landini the musician (composer and
player). Their works are on many a walls, in cathedrals, in books,
and in performances and on CD recordings. The past is part of
contemporary Italy; foreigners can experience them in photographs,
translations (though preferably in the originals), and recordings.

-3- "Bella e crudele" (= Beautiful and Cruel Woman). // This is the
title of a poem composed by Michelangelo (1475-1564), who was a poet,
an architect, a sculptor, and a painter. It is set to music and sung
by Sollima. The poem is specifically a madrigal, which originated in
Italy in the 14th century.

-4- Campo dei miracoli (= Field of Miracles). // The field is an area
in Pisa which included the cathedral, the baptistry, the cemetery,
and the bell-tower. The latter is better known as the leaning tower
of Pisa, since the ground gave away while it was being constructed in
the 11th century. The architecture is in the Italian (or specifically
Luccan) Romanesque style -- before the Renaissance. Pisa and three
other cities (Amalfi, Genoa, and Venice) were the four maritime
Republics of Italy. Republics and Communes arose with thre breakdown
of the medieval feudal system in about a half of Italy.
(The Roman Republic, which started in 510 B.C., ended in the 1st
century B.C.)

-5- Ritratto di musico (= Portrait of a Musician). // Here Sollima is
referring to Franchino Gaffurio (1451-1522), a composer and music
theorist. Sollima's music is based on a piece by Gaffurio.

-6- L'ortolano (= the Vegetable-plot Gardner). //Here Sollima refers
to the gardner painted by Arcimboldi (1527-1593), who was in the
habit of constructing a picture by painting small pieces of nature
(fruits, vegetables, and the like).

-7- Borromini. // Borromini was an architect who founded the
Baroque style of architecture. (Renaissance art, including music
and literature, is occasionally divided into Renaissance Proper and
Baroque. The distinction is most pronounced in interior design and in
music.

-8- L'isola ferdinandea (= Ferdinand's Island). // Phantom-like, it
rose out of the sea near Sicily, during the reign of Ferdinand, in
1831, and disappeared four years later. It was a volcanic island,
like Stromboli and the inactive Vulcanus, which was apparently
extremely active in Odyssean times. The whole of Italy rises on an S-shaped range of volcanos, from the Alps through Sicily. Today's major active volcanos are Stromboli, Vesuvius, and Aetna.

-9- Campo dei fiori (= Field of the Flowers). // This is a square in
Rome which, at least today, is a flower market. At one corner there
is the statue of Giordano Bruno, the philosopher and writer, who was
burnt at the stake there as a heretic in 1600.

-10- La tempesta (= The Storm). // This is the title of a famous
painting by Giorgione (1478-1510), harbinger of the Ventian school of
painting.

-11- Zobeide. // This is Sollima's favorite short story in "The
Invisible City" by Italo Calvino (1923-1985). (Calvino has been
widely translated into English.)

-12- La sonata di Casanova (= Casanova's Sonata). // The sonata
or "(instrumentally) played piece," started and developed in Italy,
where as much instrumental music as vocal music was composed at least
up to the 19th century. Instrumental music became prominent there
again in the 20th century, despite the immense amount of pop vocal
music (as in other parts of the world). Casanova (1715-1798) is a
mythic adventurer, lover, and gambler who was actually or also a very
learned person, a writer, a translator, and a diplomat. The esotheric
18th century included also the person who styled himself as Prince
Cagliostro, necromancer, healer (like our television healing clowns),
and founder of an Egyptian rite.

-13- Cretto (= Maze). // Here Sollima is referring to the small town
of Gibellina in Sicily which was destroyed by an eathquake in 1968.
Later on, Alberto Burri, a famous artist, created a maze, like a
labyrinth, out of its ruins. It stands there like a metaphysical
creation of De Chirico [one of the greatest 20th century painters],
while the wind howls in its interiors.

-14- La camera bianca (= The White chamber). // The name refers to a
mobile chamber, all white, which contains a small scientific
laboratory. It was taken next to the monumental tomb of Frederick II
in Palermo and the investigators discovered that the tomb contains
also the skeleton of a woman -- a total historical mystery!

This brief journey, expressed in music, geographically and more or
less historically started and ended in Palermo. The sequence of short
music pieces is in the impressionism tradition of
Moussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," Respighi's "Pines of
Rome," and others, where the music aims at suggesting the tone or
mood of what the composer beholds. This is good music, though
Respighi remains unsurpassed for the intensity and incisiveness of
expression.
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--- Another musical journey in Italy ---

NICOLA ALESINI (contemporary composer):
Fabula meridiana [Latin : Noon Fable]. CD label: Il manifesto.
Instrumental music; late 20th century.

Tracks:

-1- Respighi. // The title of this piece names Respighi, the renown 20th century composer.

-2- All'alba (= At Dawn). // (Alesini is the saxophone player in his evocative music.)

-3- Sud (= South). // (This is one of the most beautiful pieces in the set.)

-4- Berta (= Bertha). // There is a saying, "Al tempo che Berta filava," that is, "At the times when Bertha used to spin." This refers to heart-warming and idyllic times of childhood.

-5- Dune (= Dunes).

-6- Pulcinella. // Pulcinella is one of the stock-characters or masks of the commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian comedy which was highly successful in Italy and abroad between the 16th and the 19th century, with trails into the present, as in Milan. (It stands for the typically Italian theater.) Other characters: Harlequin, Columbine, Pantalone, Isabella, Brighella, and others, who "come from" various parts of Italy and speak their own language-dialect. Pulcinella is Neapolitan. These characters are also present in some author-written comedies and in some operas.
Various actors-improvisers were learned in poetry and music, created improvisations or sang. The comedians were organized in companies, which travelled to various cities and even abroad, setting temporary stages in public squares. The impresario or company director would present a scenario, namely a plot-outline of a comedy, and then each actors created his own parts in relations to the others, on the stage. Many scenarios have survived.

-7- San Remo. // This is the city which for some 50 years has been housing the annual competition of pop songs. The present music piece is dedicated to Luigi Tenco who, having lost in a competition, committed suicide.

-8- Verso Cuma (= toward Cuma). // The reference is to the oracle at Cuma. In the Sistine chapel, Michelangelo painted four ancient sibyls: the Cuman, the Delphic, and two others. (This is the most expressive of Alesini's music pieces.)

-9- Elmas.

-10- Nella vecchia citta` (= In the Old City).

-11- Il banditore. (= The Herald).

-12- Guardando il mare. (= While Looking at the Sea).

-13- Inseguimento tra i veicoli. (= Chase Between the Vehicles).

-14- La giostra. (= the Merry-go-round; The Joust of the knights).

-15- Il passaggio del santo (= the Saint's Procession). There is still the custom in some small towns to take a saint's statue on a street procession on the saint's day.

-16- Verso sera (= Toward Evening).

-17; 18; 19 - Magreb; Irene; Marilena.

-20- Al Tramonto (= At Sunset).

-21- Respighi -- ripresa (= respighi -- retake).

-22- Per Andrea (= for Andrew). // Piece dedicated to his brother Andrew, who died young.
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http://progressive.homestead.com/ITALIAPROG.html

GENERAL ITALIAN PROGRESSIVE MUSIC SITES :


Intro :
Italian prog (English) intro at http://www.progrock.net/Articles/italy.article
and at http://www.niu.edu/~u40pdb1/progfus220/Italian.htm (and
http://www.leorme.alma.it/ita/testo1.htm)
and at http://home.rol.com.br/metamusica/italia.htm
and in Italian at
http://www.sezionemusica.it/discogra...20italiano.htm
History of Italian prog in Spanish at http://www.geocities.com/nlabropoulos/Romaniello1.html
with part 7 at http://www.geocities.com/nlabropoulos/Romaniello7.html
General Italian music
at http://musicaitaliana.com/
Italy progressive music :
Italian prog site : http://hem.passagen.se/nyeland/ and http://www.italianprog.com
and http://digilander.libero.it/ciao.2001/
Italian prog rock page at http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/italianprogrock
Spanish speaking Italian progressive page at http://www.geocities.com/Progresiva70s/italiano.htm
Italian prog reviews in Swedish at http://www.expage.com/page/bjelvis
Short reviews in Dutch from Italian progressive at http://io.net4u.nl/dossier/italie.htm
Reviews of important items in Spanish at http://www.progresiva70s.com/italiano.htm
Italian prog pop pages : http://artemis.simmons.edu/~wick/poppy.html
Italian progressive covers : http://www.roundsounds.com/italian%2...sive%20cds.htm
some soundfragments http://myhome.hananet.net/~allmusic/art2.htm
Encyclopedy :
Italian Progressive encyclopedia web site (Italian language) : http://daniele435.supereva.it/
Small list new progressive : http://utenti.tripod.it/claudioguitar/itaalt.htm
Reviews of Italian prog encyclopedy in Italian at http://www.progresiva70s.com/Prog_italiano1.htm
Small Japanese encyclopedy at http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~NR2S-KTYM/Chronicl.htm
Rock :
Italian rock site : http://www.romarock.com/ and Italian rock artists links at
http://www.comune.torino.it/rock/
Italian Rock bands : http://www.bollicineonline.com/frame...stientryfr.php
Some Italian bands (underground prog) together are published on Floralia vol 1 see some remarks at the Italian Mizmaze label page at http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/MIZMAZE.html
More commercial ? Italian music list http://www.recordplus.com/
Audio :
Some Italian prog samples at http://www.e-prog.net/top50.htm
Real Audio new Italian progressive and some other items at
http://www.mellowrecords.com/realaudio.html
Reviews with sound files at http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip...1282/italy.htm
(or at http://stevehegede.tripod.com/italy.htm)
Labels with Italian progressive :
Former Vinyl Magic's web adress is at : www.btf.it
(with small encyclopedy from label http://www.btf.it/prog/index.htm)
Mellow records site at www.mellowrecords.com
Akarma Records : www.akarmarecords.com
Cramps records you'll find at http://www.crampsrecords.com/
and overview at http://www.italianprog.com/l_cramps.htm
Kaliphonia Rec.at http://www.torredellalchimista.it/kaliphonia.html
Si Wan on line at http://www.changgo.com/past/siwan/siwan1000.htm
Overview of several Italian prog labels at http://www.italianprog.com/labels.htm
For Italian prog music look also at http://wwwe.cranium.co.nz/catalog/C_Italy.htm
and at http://www.kinesiscd.com/italian.htm
ll Italian (indipendent) labels at http://www.rockit.it/etichette/etichette.php3
with progressive music or psychedelic music labels when you click the moving menu.
Vinyl from Italy web site at http://space.tin.it/musica/acolapi/
Label for retailers at http://www.pickuprecords.it/
More Italian prog labels at http://www.musictrade.com/label/index.htm
(PS. You can also find Italian prog at http://www.cranium.co.nz/catalog/C_Italy.htm)
Music shops :
Some prog music shops in Italy at http://www.mprecords.it/negozi.html
Books
on Italian prog at http://www.italianprog.com/books.htm
Italian prog magazine
at http://www.raro.it/
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ALTERNATIVE/ALLOMORPHIC MUSIC.
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Growing out of rock-and-roll, rock music developed primarily in the United States and in England. It continued in other countries, Italy included, from the Anglo-American mainstream. During the second half of the 20th century itself, however, new directions appeared in rock, wherefore today we speak of classic rock, hard rock, progressive rock, punk and so forth. The term "alternative rock" began to be used for some of these orientation and then was used also for forms of music more distant from rock. Therefore, even today, "alternative" can have a rather narrow application, or it may be like an "umbrella" that covers a large variety of music. As a blanket-term, ALTERNATIVE is supposed to include Punk (or Punk rock), Gothic (or Goth rock), Folk Alternative. Christian Alternative, Ska, New W@ave, Industrial, Experimental, Dark Ambient, Indie, Electronic, Techno, Underground, and so forth.

The problem with classifications is that, very often, what is considered, is not the nature of the music, but the total context wherein music is realized: the lyrics of the songs, the intent of the lyrics and/or of the music, the manner of staging performances, the hair and clothing fashions, the recording houses of the music, and so on and on. (I consider the music as recorded; the words in thelveses are not music components.)

If and to what extent Alternative music is an alternative to rock, it is also an alternative to classical music in the broadest sense of the term. Before my "discovering" Alternative music, I saw in various works I was familiar with a departure from rock, which at the same time is not a return to classical music. For example: various instrumental works of Pink Floyd, some works of Frank Zappa, or, in Italy, some works of Battiato (who in versatility and invention is the brother of Zappa), and two or three other recent composers, to whom I shall return.

This is how various types of music are described in web articles such as "Punk Rock 101 Report, by the British Jesse Fasano, "Description of Relevant Music," and "Goth Music Definitions:"

Alternative: "the umbrella term for all music that is not part of the mainstream," the mainstream being rock, pop, jazz, and the like (but also classical and related types of music). It includes Punk, New Wave, etc. The term was originally intended for Underground, non-pop, avant-guard music.

Punk (Punk Rock) "was a way for the torn and poor youth of Britain of the seventies to lash against" their terrible place in society; abrasive, irreverent, anti-establishment. The forefathers: The Dead Kennedys, The Sex Pistols, The Clas, The Ramones, Blondie, The Slits, etc. [Punk Rock is occasionally catalogued under Pop Rock, while Classic Rock includes the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Pink Floyd, etc.] To notice that they speak of the "Proto-Punk" of David Bowie, and of the "Indie" of R.E.M. and some U2. But these are cases in point: According to my acquantances, Bowie, R.E.M., and U2 exemplify rock, with some variations perhaps, but rock nevertheless.

Presumably from Punk, two offsprings emerged: Industrial Music (1976) and Goth[ic] Music (1979). Leading to the latter were Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976) and the Cure (1978).
Industrial Rock derives its name (in 1976) from a label called "Industrial Records;" the music has nothing to do with industries or industrial sounds (as in the early decades of the 20th century). Pioneer band: throbbing Gristle. The adherents were called Rivetheads. Anyway, the music is described as "masculine, angry, aggressive, noisy, technological [making use of electronic sounds], political...." (One might say that this is Ultra-Rock.)

Gothic Music (Gothic Rock; ...) originated in British night clubs (The Bat Cave,...) the musicians considered themselves Alternative or Underground. Bands: Bauhaus, Southerm Death Cult, Sex Gang Children, the Sisters of Mercy, etc. This genre of music is widespread in England, Europe, and America to some degree (but it is often too reclusive or existentialistic to dispel the extrovert hop-and-swerling hip hop dances). I would say that, speaking of major music that counts, Gothic is reclusive or cemeterial, rock is of field festivals, and classical is of concert-halls (or drawing rooms).

The term "gothic" is the same as "medievalistic." Neither the music nor the Medieval architecture (which is called Gothic rather than Francogenic) has anything to do with the Goths. (Not even the script which is called Gothic has anything to do with the Goths. It was some Renaissance Italians that called certain medieval things "gothic" to mean "barbaric.")
At any rate, the appellation "gothic" came about from tales and movies called "gothic" -- having to do with medieval castles, cemetaries, mysteries, horrors, etc. Indeed, in England there had been a trend in literature which was called gothic for the same reasons. The original Gothic novels and graveyard poetry developed between 1764 and 1840. A whole side of 19th century Romanticism was medievalism or gothicism in literature, painting, music lyrics (and opera libretti), and so forth.

Gothic music proper can also be called arcane music, but there are various breeds, or at least names, for variations of gothic music:

Goth Rock; Death Punk; Death Rock; Ritualistic; Cultistic... are darker forms of gothic, tending toward the macabre and desolation, as in the case of the Sisters of Mercy, Bauhause, and American Christian Death.

Folk/Occult Gothic. Bands: Current 93, Sol Invictus, Death in June. Here we have a gamut that runs from the arcane or dark to the festive music of the medieval castles (minstrels, troubadours, etc.)

Darkwave music is "introspective, moody, emotional, artistic, less rock and roll oriented. It is considered as either a sub-set of Gothic or as an independent category. The term was first employed by the Projeckt label in 1983. It may or may not include the following two categories:

Etherial, with classical type instrumentation, opera-like vocals, etc. Bands:Love Spirals, Downwards, Cocteau twins, Lycia.

Darkambient (Dark Ambient) focuses on moody soundscapes ("layers upon layers of sounds"), and droning, mysterious, and minimal sounds. Bands: Steve Roach, Vibda Obmana, Soul Whirling. (The term "ambient" had been coined earlier, in 1978, by Brian Eno. Today's Ambient music, New Age Music, etc, are essential classical.) Upon considering various categories of music, we see that there is a whole gamut which runs from emphatically rock music to emphatic classical music. I call ALLOMORPHIC any such music which is sufficiently differentiated from both rock and classical music; esthetically, it runs the gamut from dark to bright [to avoid the confusing "light"] music.

Street Punk; Reality Punk; Oi! (the name used by a jounalist): This is a splinter movement of Punk Rock which, toward the end of 1977, reacted against the "more arty tun punk." It drew from early Punk and the Rolling Stones. The bands comprised punk and shinheads who, originally were rebellious rather than associated to right-wing political organizations. (In some Italian Oi! lyrics, the skinheads are symbols of rebels against prejudice, against fascism, and the like.)

New Wave or "Modern." The tern "New Wave" was taken from the early 1960 movement in French cinema.... "Thus, the Clash were punk; the Cars were New Wave. The Sex Pistols were punk; Devo was New Wave." To me the differences are secondary and do not call for using a term like "alternative." "The recipe for a new wave band or track consisted of equal parts of technology, dance, melancholy, futurism, and counter-culture.

I have already excluded futuristic, electronic, and similar music from "allomorphic." Again, certain types of so-called alternative music have nothing to do with the music. For example "indie" is rock or rock-type music which is recorded independently of the big record companies, but the "counter-culture" of the musicians is not something which is expressed by the music.

While allomorphic music is a concomitance or a fusion of rock and classical music, there are other fusions (or trends), which are also worth considering, from the third-stream music of the Modern Jazz Quartet to fusions of pop music from diverse traditions. I will reserve "allomorhic" for the rock-classical "other form" of music.

[continuing...]
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ALTERNATIVE/ALLOMORPHIC MUSIC
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Contemporary musicians, music writers, record producers, and record stores make their own categorizations of contemporary music. I see it fit to preserve the broad term, "alternative" for all that music which departs from the rock, pop, jazz mainstreams, and from the classical and paraclassical mainstreams. The term "allomorphic" applies to part of Alternative music. For example, the Italian "Energeia Mail Order" sheet (frequently updated) could use the general heading, "Alternative Music" [or "Musica Alternativa] for its sections or categories, which are:
-1-- Dark Ambient / Indis.
-2-- Ritual / Neofolk.
-3-- Gothic.
-4-- Electro [Electronic, Futuristic, Experimental, Techno].
-5-- Etherial / Medieval.
-6-- Dark Wave.

Even though the categories will have overlappings (or some music is inherently variegated, eclectic), I would separate # 4 from the rest and then use the term "allomorphic" for much of the rest. ALTERNATIVE MUSIC triangle [***]:

...............................Electronic-Futuristic
..............................................*
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ ^ \
/ | \
...............____*--- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---*____
.....Rock .....................< Allomorphic >.................Classical
& pop .......................................

ALLOMORPHIC MUSIC combines ingredients al rock and of classical music, or may be either more heavily rock or more heavily classical and related forms of music. (There is pop which is affiliated to classical music and pop which is affiliated to jazz or to rock.) Esthetically, allomorphic music covers the gamut from very dark to dark to bright
(which can be either etherial vocal music or instrumental music which, as in the case of Battiato, is not specifically etherial.) The dark or arcane music obviously embraces the various types (or variously named) gothic music and dark wave music, as well as dark ambient music, which related also to electronic-futuristic music. Thus allomorphic music lies in three directions and, as a whole, lies on a triangular plan. My next page will go into Italian allomorphic music.

The following are some stores where Alternative music (inclusive of allomorphic music) can be obtained:

--- ENERGEIA / Via Manzoni 9 / 80019 Qualiano (NA) / Italy.
e-mail (in English or in Italian for e-mail orders, but no e-mail payments):
energeia @tiscalinet.it

--- MIDDLE PILLAR / P. O. Box 555 / New York, NY 10009 / USA.
web catalogue & orders: www.middlepillar.com

--- RESURRECTION RECORDS (UK): web extensive catalogue & orders.

Some alternative music (other than Italian) on CD, unless otherwise indicated:

- Bauhouse: In the Flat Field.
- The Sisters of Mercy: Floodland.
- Rozz & Negative Trend: The Pop Sessions.
- This is Goth! [one piece by each band or group]: Alien Sex Fiend/ Inkubus Sukkubus/ Die Laughing/ Corpus Delicti/ Razed in Black/ Controlled Bleeding/ Big Electric Cat/ Mephisto Walz/ The Prophetess/ Usherhouse/ Two Witches/ The Mission UK/ Switchblade Symphony/ The Damned/ Spahn Ranch/ The Wake/ Delirium/ Virgin Prunes/ Rosetta Stone vs. Marilyn Monroe/ Re Lorry Yellow Lorry/ The March Violets/ Edera/ Premature Ejaculation/ Gary Numan/ The Electric Hellfire Club/ Suspiria/ Screams for Tina/ Christian Death/ Vampire Rodents/ Gitane Demone/ Genitorturens/ Speciemen/ Penal Colony/ Children Stun/ Kill Switch... Click.
- Night Creatures (the best of gothic rock): Alien Sex Fiend/ The Southern Death Cult/ Red Lorry Yellow Lorry/ Skeletal Family/ Speciemen/ Into a Circle/ Screaming Dead/ Ritual/ Play Dead/ 1919/ Gene Loves Jezebel/ Fields of the Nephilim/ Bauhause/ The Bolshoi/ The Cult/ Nico.
- Theodore: An Alternative Music Sampler [a cassette which includes even hip hop].
- Prophesy Pruductions: to 2 to magic :: The Vision Bleak/ Autumnblaze/ Dornenreich/ Canaan/ Naervaer/ Bethlehem/ Orplid/ Sots/ trnhi/ Paragon of beauty/ Leakh/ Empyrium/ Blazing eternity/ Of the Wand and the Moon.
- Funeral Songs: Raison d'Etre/ Tertium non Data/ Amber Asylum/ Agnivolok/ C17h19n3 Burning/ Shinjuku Thief/ Alio Die [Italian]/ Gruntsplatter/ Dreams in Exile/ Chaos as Shelter/ House of Low Culture/ Nasopharyngeal.
- The Power of a New Aeon [one piece for each tarot card]: The Soil Bleeds Black/ 4th Sign of the Apocalypse/ Coscientia Peccati/ Opera Multi steel/ Ah Cama-Sotz/ Loretta's Doll/ Dream Into Dust/ Aracana/ Stay Frightened/ Pilori/ Atahanor/ Ontario Blue/ Autumn Tears/ Vehemence Realized/ Endvra/ Bleeding Like Mine/ Chants for the Fallen/ Psychonaut, Arcanta/ Nothvs Filivs Mortis/ Dead Leaves Rising.
- Profane Grace: Epitaph of Shattered Dreams.

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ATARAXIA

the best contemporary Italian Alternate [Allomorphic] music group:

http://www.ataraxia.net

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Laura Pausini is a popular Italian Pop singer.

Lacuna Coil is a popular Italian Symphonic Black Metal band with a female vocalist.

They're not classical music, but they're rather pleasing to my extremely finical taste in music.
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