Italian folk music

A barcarolle ( ; from French, also barcarole; originally, Italian barcarola or barcaruola, from 'boat') is a traditional folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers, or a piece of music composed in that style. In classical music, two of the most famous barcarolles are Jacques Offenbach's "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour", from his opera The Tales of Hoffmann; and Frédéric Chopin's Barcarolle in F-sharp major for solo piano.

genre of music related to the musical tradition of Naples

The furlana (also spelled furlane, forlane, friulana, forlana) is an Italian folk dance from the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In Friulian, furlane means Friulian, in this case Friulian Dance. In Friuli there has been a Slav minority since the Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps, and the furlana may well have originated as a Slavonic dance. It dates at least to 1583, when a "ballo furlano" called ''L'arboscello was published in Pierre Phalèse the Younger’s Chorearum molliorum collectanea'' and in Jakob Paix’s organ tablature book, though its chief popularity extended from the late

style of polyphonic folk singing characteristic of Sardinia, particularly the region of Barbagia

thumb|upright=1.5|Sheet music for Carl Michael Bellman's [[Fredman's Epistle 80, Liksom en Herdinna, högtids klädd, one of several pastorales in the 1790 collection]] Pastorale refers to something of a pastoral nature in music, whether in form or in mood.

music genre