Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tarantella .
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- noun a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons
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Examples
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First the tongue in a la-la-la, then the flute in a march, and then—the tarantelle!
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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First the tongue in a la-la-la, then the flute in a march, and then—the tarantelle!
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Meanwhile her composition was not neglected; beginning by publishing three études, a tarantelle, and a nocturne for piano, she continued with sonatas, fugues, and songs.
Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson
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As the piping went on, the merry measure became a tarantelle.
Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations Edmund Dulac 1917
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A suite for the piano is "En Passant," published in 1899; it ranges from a stately old dance, "At Fontainebleau," to "Napoli," a furious tarantelle with effective _glissandi_; "In Dreamland" is a most delicious revery with an odd repetition that is not preludatory, but thematic.
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Arnold has also written some ballet music, a tarantelle for string orchestra, and is at work upon a symphony, and a book, "Some Points in Modern Orchestration."
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As he finished, there was not a murmur; and the next minute he had dashed into a quaint tarantelle that instantly dispelled the former spell of grandeur.
Other Things Being Equal Emma Wolf 1898
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After a lively chorus, a fascinating and genuine Neapolitan tarantelle is danced.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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Pan ends in fernale caprice, impetuous in its opening, then briefly and sweetly pleasing, moving forward to a swirling tarantelle, tantalisingly introduced by the woodwind, but bringing moments of respite and nostalgic reminiscences of what has passed.
AvaxHome RSS: 2008
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Like other tarantelle, a family of related south Italian dances, legend has it that dancing the pizzica could cure women bitten by tarantulas.
Pizzica: the centuries-old Italian folk music still whipping up a frenzy Andrea Valentino 2023
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