Abstract: (The Melodrama between Migration and Guest Culture) The Melodrama is a typically Italian musical and cultural phenomenon that develops in a particular historical period that embraces the ‘800 and moves to the beginning twentieth century, a period when Italy alternates great stress relieving tensions in political, social and economic field. Mirror of evolution of musical taste of the Italian society by the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, is transported out of the territory in which it is born and grows through the great phenomenon of the Italian migration which, starting from the mid-nineteenth century, assumes significant proportions for Italy. For its spread beyond national borders, much is due to the cultural background of the common people, mostly of peasant or petty bourgeois who, among other riches of the immense Italian cultural heritage, includes in its “DNA” a basic musical education also dues to the wide spread on the whole territory of the Italian “bands”.