Amore, impegno e satira in Luigi Tenco. Un’analisi linguistica
Love, Commitment and Satire in Luigi Tenco. A Linguistic Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The present paper deals with the linguistic strategies used by the Italian songwriter Luigi Tenco (Cassine, 21 March 1938 – Sanremo, 27 January 1967) in the lyrics of his songs. The figure of Tenco takes on a great importance in the context of the remarkable transformations experienced by Italian songwriting in the Sixties. We will analyse three songs, assumed as paradigmatic examples of the main thematic veins of Tenco’s work: songs about love and human condition, political songs, and satirical ballads. The analysis will cast light on metric, lexical, and syntactic features of the lyrics; a special emphasis will be put on the interplay between syntactic structures and musical phrases, solved by Tenco through a clear supremacy of the former.

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