Traditional Folk Songs Of Many Nations

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	168	Sailing o'er a Summer Sea Funicoli-Funicola.

	L. DENZA.



	"Funicoli-Funicola" is a song that was composed by Luigi Denza in 1880. It celebrated, in Neapolitan dia�lect, the glories of the Funicular railway which was then built to the summit of Vesuvius. It become enormous�ly popular and is today the best known street song of Italy. Nearly a million copies of it have been sold, and Richard Strauss, under the Impression that it was a representative folk song of the country, made it the chief theme in the finale of his symphonic suite, ^;'Aus Italion", ("From Italy".) It seems never to lose its charm to the Italian, and this song and "Santa Lucia", are the two melodies that greet the ears of the trav�eler when he enters Italy, particularly if he lands at Naples.