The term Italian music is ambiguous and may refer to several topics:
- The music of Italy
- The folk, popular, classical (especially opera) musics of Italy and the Italian peoples
- The music of Italian people in the United States or other countries
Famous quotes containing the words italian and/or music:
“Their martyred blood and ashes sow
O’er all the Italian fields where still doth sway
The triple tyrant; that from these may grow
A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way,
Early may fly the Babylonian woe.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)