Classical Music Wikipedia
The focus at that time was on the lyrical and literary worth of music, rather than the instrumentation; this focus remained until the early 1960s. Two folkloric journals helped to encourage the burgeoning area of study, the Rivista Italiana delle Tradizioni Popolari and Lares, founded in 1894 and 1912, respectively. The earliest major musical research had been on the Sardinian launeddas in 1913–1914 by Mario Giulio Fara; on Sicilian music, published in 1907 and 1921 by Alberto Favara; and studies of the music of Emilia Romagna in 1941 by Francesco Balilla Pratella. Also, the Discoteca di Stato in Rome, founded in 1928, holds the most important public assortment of recorded music in Italy with some 230,000 examples of classical music, people music, jazz, and rock, recorded on every thing from…

