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

Film

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

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

  1. "The Years of Refuge (1841–1846) - 1841". Internet Chopin Information Centre.
  2. Video of the composer playing his Tarantella live 2014 on YouTube
  3. Zinn, Joshua (14 August 2014). "HPM Top Ten List: Dance Forms That Inspired Music". Houston Public Media.
  4. "Preludio - Santiago de Murcia".
  5. Free scores by List of tarantellas at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
  6. Video on YouTube, and Score
  7. John Serry Sr. (Composer) (18 March 1946). Tarantella for solo stradella accordion (1942). Library of Congress – Copyright Office.
  8. John Serry Sr. (23 March 1976). Tarantella for solo stradella accordion (Revised 1955). New York: Viccas Music Co. ID # EP7269 & # RS48482.
  9. Published score
  10. "Nocturne and Tarantella, Op.28 (Szymanowski, Karol)". IMSLP. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  11. 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.
  12. Broxton, Jonathan (21 August 2009). "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Ennio Morricone/Various Artists". Movie Music UK.
  13. 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.
  14. Colella, Sandra (2007). "TARANTISM AND TARANTELLA IN A DOLL'S HOUSE" (PDF). Universitetet i Oslo (Master's Thesis).
  15. "The Gold=Bug". eapoe.org.
  16. Powers, Tim (2016). Medusa's Web (Kindle ed.). Atlantic Books. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-78239-183-8.
  17. Gates, David (23 August 1992). "There Is No Crater Love". Newsweek.
  18. de Robertis, Carolina (2015). The Gods of Tango. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 34. ISBN 9781101874493.
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