Tarantella

The Tarantella is a native of Southern folk dance. It is characterized by a rapid music in 3/8- or 6/8-measure.

Presumably their name from the town of Taranto in Apulia was derived. The vernacular name derives, however, from " Tarantula " or " Lycosa Tarentula " one encountered in Italy and in the Mediterranean spider ago. " Tarantella " then that would mean in the original "little Tarantula ". The bite of the tarantula is painful, but not the cause of the tarantism. This is brought rather with the venom of the European black widow ( Latrodectus tredecimguttatus ) in conjunction. The wild dance should there be a therapy: the musicians came into the house of the patient or to the marketplace and began to play; the Bitten danced to exhaustion to drive the poison from the body.

The first written documentation of the dance goes on Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) back in the 19th century, during the Romantic period, took up the instrumental music, this music form. Composers who dealt with the Tarantella, are, for example, Franz Schubert, Gioachino Rossini (La Danza ), Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninov, William Henry Squire, Alexander Borodin, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Frederic Chopin and the American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk ( " Grand Tarantella for Piano & Orchestra" ). Kurt Weill composed the court scene of his opera The Rise and Fall of the City Mahagonny as Tarantella. The second set of John Corigliano's First Symphony (1990 ) bears the name Tarantella, and Elliot Goldenthal used in his ballet Othello ( 1998), a similar four of ten minutes duration to represent the development of Iago plan against Othello. Franz Josef Degenhardt attacked the dance of both content and playing technique in 1963, in his eponymous piece " Tarantella " the album " Rumpelstiltskin " on. Today famous composers include Otello Profazio, Beppe Junior, I Calabruzi, Mino Reitano, Pino Di Modugno, Eugenio Bennato, Renzo Arbore, Enza Pagliara, Maneka, nidi D' arac, Ariacorte, and Alla Bua.

Tarantella dances (Le Tarantelle )

Tarantella is a concept name of several dances (Italian tarantella with respective designation of origin, calabrese, etc.):

  • Pizzica ( Apulia)
  • Tarantella del Gargano ( Apulia)
  • Taranta ( Apulia)
  • Viddaneddha (Calabria )
  • Tarantella Guappa (Calabria )
  • Zampugnaru Onoratu (Calabria )
  • Piglia o cane (Campania )
  • Tammuriata nera (Campania )
  • Tarantella Molisana ( Molise )
  • Tarantella Lucana ( Basilicata )
  • Quadriglia ( Basilicata, Sicily)
  • Curdedda ( Sicily)
  • Maranzanata malandrina ( Sicily)
Lycosa tarantula Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Draga Matković
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