List of tarantellas
The tarantella is a traditional dance form, and accompanying music, with a distinctive rhythm, from the south of Italy. Tarantellas appear in many pieces of classical music, in literature, and in popular culture.
Classical music
- Mily Balakirev has a "Tarantella in B major".
- Agustín Barrios wrote a "Tarantella for guitar (Recuerdos de Nápoles)".
- Ludwig van Beethoven's "Kreutzer" Violin Sonata, third movement, is a tarantella.
- Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 18, fourth movement, is a tarantella.
- Benjamin Britten wrote a tarantella as the third and final movement of his Sinfonietta, Op. 1.
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco wrote a tarantella for solo guitar, Op. 87b.
- Frédéric Chopin wrote a Tarantelle in A-flat, Op. 43 with the characteristic 6
8 time signature. It was inspired specifically by Rossini's's song "La Danza".[1] - Giuseppe Martucci wrote two tarantelle: Op. 9 (1873), and Op. 44, No. 6 (1880, orchestrated in 1908 titled "Danza").
- John Corigliano wrote a tarantella as the fourth movement of his Gazebo Dances, which he later used as the basis of the second movement of his Symphony No. 1.
- Claude Debussy wrote a piece called "Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)."
- Leopold Godowsky transcribed Chopin's Étude Op. 10, No. 5 "Black Key" into a tarantella for the piano.
- Grande Tarantelle, Op. 67 for piano and orchestra, written c.1866 by Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
- Oleg Karavaychuk wrote a tarantella.[2]
- Helmut Lachenmann's twelfth movement of Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied (1979–80) is a tarantelle.
- Franz Liszt composed a piece called "Tarantella, Venezia e Napoli" (No. 3 from Années de pèlerinage, 2nd Year: Italy), which is in a rapid tempo in 6
8–2
4 time. Liszt also made solo piano transcriptions and expansive reworkings of tarantellas by several composers including Gioacchino Rossini, Daniel Auber, Alexander Dargomizhsky and César Cui. - Felix Mendelssohn wrote a piece called "Tarantella" in 1845 (Op. 102, No. 3).[3]
- Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, fourth movement, is a tarantella.
- Santiago de Murcia, a baroque Spanish composer and guitarist, wrote "Tarantelas" for guitar.[4] It is No. 13 of his collection Saldivar Codex IV[5]
- Albert Pieczonka, a pianist and composer who performed in Prussia, England, and the United States wrote a popular piano composition titled "Tarantella in A minor".
- David Popper wrote a piece called "Tarantella, Op. 33", written in 6
8 time. - The fourth of Sergei Prokofiev's twelve easy pieces for piano—Musique d'Enfants, Op. 65—is a tarantella.
- Sergei Rachmaninoff's Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17, features a tarantella for its finale.
- Gioachino Rossini's song "La Danza" is a Neapolitan tarantella.[3]
- Camille Saint-Saëns composed "Tarantella, Op. 6 in A minor for flute, clarinet and orchestra, or for flute, clarinet and piano". He also transcribed this piece for two pianos.[3]
- Gaspar Sanz, a baroque Spanish composer, notated the chords of a Tarantelas in his book of instructions for the Spanish (baroque) guitar.[6]
- Pablo de Sarasate composed an Introduction and Tarantella for violin.
- Franz Schubert's Death and the Maiden Quartet uses a tarantella in the frenetic fourth movement.
- Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in C minor, last movement, is a tarantella/rondo.
- The fourth movement of Schubert's Symphony No. 3 is also a tarantella, but following the sonata form.
- John Serry Sr. composed his Tarantella for solo stradella accordion in 1942 and revised it in 1955.[7][8]
- Allan Small wrote "Tarantella in A minor for piano".[9]
- William Henry Squire wrote "Tarantella for cello in D minor".
- The fifteenth section of Igor Stravinsky's Pulcinella is a tarantella. This music is also the fourth movement of the composer's Pulcinella Suite and fifth of his Suite italienne.[3]
- Karol Szymanowski wrote a Nocturne and Tarantella for violin and piano.[10]
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien ends in a frenzied variation of a tarantella. Also, one of his Pas de Deux in The Nutcracker features a tarantella.
- Ferdinand Thieriot included a tarantella in his Symphonietta op. 55 E major (1873/1892), conducted by Arthur Nikisch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in February 1893.
- Mark-Anthony Turnage composed a violin concerto entitled Mambo, Blues and Tarantella in 2007.
- Fred Werner 1909 Tarantelle
- Henryk Wieniawski composed a well-known violin piece called Scherzo-Tarantella, Op. 16.
- Tarantella for Piano and Orchestra was composed by American composer Michael Glenn Williams for pianist Sean Chen.
- The last movement of Malcolm Williamson's Sinfonietta (1965) is a tarantella.
Film
- The Fairy Godmother's song "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Disney's Cinderella (1950) is a tarantella in rhythm and tempo.
- The popular wedding tarantella C'è la luna mezzo mare has appeared in feature films such as The Godfather (1972).[11]
- In The Godfather Part II (1974), Frankie Pentangeli tries to get the band playing at Michael's son's First Communion party (whose members are not Italian) to play a tarantella; following some quick coaching, the band instead ends up playing "Pop Goes the Weasel".
- It appears in The Legend of 1900 (1998) when Italian immigrants request 1900 to play tarantella music.
- The tarantella dance is referenced in the film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), where it is the result of a magical curse.
- Rabbia e Tarantella is in the soundtrack of Inglourious Basterds (2009) by Quentin Tarantino.[12]
- Extensive use of tarantellas is made in the French film Tous les soleils (2011).
Television
- The Backyardigans episode "The Legend of the Volcano Sisters" features Tarantella as the music style du jour.
Stage
- It has appeared in the musical version of Peter Pan (1954 on stage) with Mary Martin, and is danced by Captain Hook and his band of pirates, illustrating the above-mentioned occasional association with sword fights vis à vis the metaphor of pirates. In this performance, which is available on film, television, and DVD, the context is silly fun.
- In the song "How I Saved Roosevelt" from Assassins, a tarantella is used to musically represent Giuseppe Zangara.
Video games
- A tarantella is part of the soundtrack for game Assassin's Creed II (2009)
- The "Puppy Love" level of Earthworm Jim 2 uses both Tarantella Napoletana and Funiculì, Funiculà as music.
Literature
- Hilaire Belloc's poem "Tarantella" (1929) mimics in words the progress of the dance, culminating in the stillness of death. Online versions of the poem vary: a reliable printed version can be found in The Oxford Book of Modern Verse.[13]
- In Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House, a performance of the tarantella is central to the plot.[14]
- Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug" (1843) features the introductory lines, "What ho! What ho! This fellow is dancing mad. He has been bitten by the tarantella", which Poe ascribes to a 1761 play by Arthur Murphy, although the lines do not appear in the play.[15]
- Tim Powers' novel Medusa's Web (2015) uses the 18/8 version of the tarantella and its effect on (supernatural) spiders as a plot device.[16]
- In Susan Sontag's novel The Volcano Lover: A Romance (1992), Lady Emma Hamilton shocks her company by dancing a tarantella.[17]
- In Carolina De Robertis' novel The Gods of Tango (2015), the crowd at the port of Naples sings a tarantella to send off the new emigrants to Buenos Aires.[18]
Comics
- In Axis Powers Hetalia, Southern Italy/Romano cures his disease by dancing the tarantella with Spain; one of the songs sung by him, "The Delicious Tomato Song", is a tarantella.
References
- "The Years of Refuge (1841–1846) - 1841". Internet Chopin Information Centre.
- Video of the composer playing his Tarantella live 2014 on YouTube
- Zinn, Joshua (14 August 2014). "HPM Top Ten List: Dance Forms That Inspired Music". Houston Public Media.
- "Preludio - Santiago de Murcia".
- Free scores by List of tarantellas at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Video on YouTube, and Score
- John Serry Sr. (Composer) (18 March 1946). Tarantella for solo stradella accordion (1942). Library of Congress – Copyright Office.
- John Serry Sr. (23 March 1976). Tarantella for solo stradella accordion (Revised 1955). New York: Viccas Music Co. ID # EP7269 & # RS48482.
- Published score
- "Nocturne and Tarantella, Op.28 (Szymanowski, Karol)". IMSLP. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- Pontolillo, Nicholas (5 July 2017). "BWW Review: THE GODFATHER IN CONCERT at Tilles Center At LIU Post: A production "you can't refuse"". Broadway World.
While they walk into the house to talk, the Corleone family begins singing "C'è la luna mezzo mare", which is a comical Italian tarantella.
- Broxton, Jonathan (21 August 2009). "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Ennio Morricone/Various Artists". Movie Music UK.
- Foster, Oli (7 July 2017). "On the Tarantella trail Oli Foster follows in the footsteps of Hilaire Belloc, line by line through a famous poem – and the Pyrenees". The Times Literary Supplement.
- Colella, Sandra (2007). "TARANTISM AND TARANTELLA IN A DOLL'S HOUSE" (PDF). Universitetet i Oslo (Master's Thesis).
- "The Gold=Bug". eapoe.org.
- Powers, Tim (2016). Medusa's Web (Kindle ed.). Atlantic Books. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-78239-183-8.
- Gates, David (23 August 1992). "There Is No Crater Love". Newsweek.
- de Robertis, Carolina (2015). The Gods of Tango. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 34. ISBN 9781101874493.
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