Musica Mia: Italian Sacred Music

Musica Mia, My Music is a little guide to Italian music available in the United States and imported from Italy. We have selected Italian music from Amazon.com featuring CDs from Italy like Festival of Sanremo and Greatest Hits by Italian singers and groups. You will also find a selection of websites that carry Italian MP3 songs and albums as well as iTunes of Italian artists. If you prefer to order directly from Italy, ibs.it will ship your Italian music, movies, books and video games anywhere in the world. We hope you'll enjoy Musica Mia and find it useful, we encourage you to suggest this site to your friends and to include it in your favorite websites. Grazie!

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Italian Sacred Music

Italy, being one of Catholicism's seminal nations, has a long history of music for the Roman Catholic Church.
Until approximately 1800, it was possible to hear Gregorian Chant and Renaissance polyphony, such as the music of Palestrina, Lasso, Anerio, and others.
Approximately 1800 to approximately 1900 was a century during which a more popular, operatic, and entertaining type of church music was heard, to the exclusion of the aforementioned chant and polyphony.
In the late 1800s, the Cecilian Movement was started by musicians who fought to restore this music.
This movement gained impetus not in Italy but in Germany, particularly in Regensburg.
The movement reached its apex around 1900 with the ascent of Don Lorenzo Perosi and his supporter (and future saint), Pope Pius X.
The advent of Vatican II, however, nearly obliterated all Latin-language music from the Church, once again substituting it with a more popular style.