1) Ballet by George Balanchine 2) Ballroom music 3) Dance form in classical music 4) Dance music 5) Danceroom music 6) Fast whirling dance of Italy 7) Folk dance of southern Italy 8) Individual catamaran 9) Italian folk dance 10) Lively Italian dance 11) Lively Italian folk dance 12) Visual music 13) Vivacious Italian folk dance
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1) Tarantelle
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A couple dance in / time, intended to cure the supposedly poisonous bite of the tarantula
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== History == In the Italian Taranto, Apulia, the bite of a locally common type of wolf spider, named `tarantula` after the region, was popularly believed{by whom?|date=August 2014} to be highly poisonous and to lead to a hysterical condition known as tarantism. This became known as the Tarantella. The oldest documents mentioning the relationshi.....
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[ballet] Tarantella is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Louis Moreau Gottschalk`s Grande Tarantelle, Op. 67 (ca. 1858–64), reconstructed and orchestrated for piano and orchestra by Hershy Kay in July 1954. The premiere took place January 7, 1964, at the City Center of Music and Drama, ...
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fast violent Italian folk dance
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• (n.) Music suited to such a dance. • (n.) A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia.
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couple folk dance of Italy characterized by light, quick steps and teasing, flirtatious behaviour between partners; women dancers frequently carry ... [1 related articles]
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Italian folk dance. Sometimes a single dancer gets up and spins alone until a partner joins in. Sometimes several couples stand up together, like a country dance set, although pairs dance individually. Girls use tambourines.
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Tar`an·tel'la noun [ Italian ]
(Mus.) (a) A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the
tarantula . Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia...
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Tarantella: A remarkable example of early music therapy that originated in the region of Taranto, a city in southeastern Italy, in the 15th to 17th centuries. There it was believed that the bite of the tarantula spider, while not fatal, caused a dire affliction called tarantism that was characterized by profound melancholy, a sense of imminent deat...
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The tarantella is a rapid, whirling Italian dance in six-eight measure (triple time) for two people originating from Naples. The tarantella commences slowly and gradually increases in speed until it becomes very rapid. The violin is usually used as an accompaniment, sometimes a guitar, but tambourine and castanets are frequently played by the dance...
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A couple dance in 6/8 time, intended to cure the supposedly poisonous bite of the tarantula
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[
n] - music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella 2. [n] - a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons
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a piece written as a fast and lively dance; originated in Italy, where the dance was supposed to either be caused by the bite of a tarantula spider or be a cure for it.
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tarantelle noun a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons
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Southern Italian dance in very fast compound time (6/8); also a piece of music composed for, or in the rhythm of, this dance. It is commonly believed to be named after the tarantula spider which was (incorrectly) thought to cause tarantism (hysterical ailment), at one time epidemic in the southern Italian town of Taranto, the cure for which...
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a wild Italian dance in 3/8 or 6/8 time, which was supposed to cure the poisonous bite of the spider called the tarantula. It frequently alternated modes, and increased in frenzy towards the end.
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a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons
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a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons
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[Difficult words] a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons
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[Obscure words] a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons
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