Tarantella dance performed by Duo Tarante Basse @ Eindhoven
The music was for this dance was composed by Carlo Faiello. The two songs - 1) Mantiké 2) Ausonia are from a CD called "Le Danze di Dioniso" and is published by Germania dalla Oriente Musik. Isabella Ruggiero and Serena Catella are Duo Tarante Basse.
The Tarantella is a southern Italian couple folk dance in 6/8 time accompanied by tambourines.Its name comes from the town of Taranto, where it originated. It is among the most recognized of traditional Italian music. The dance varies with every region but has the same basic upbeat tempo.
The stately courtship tarantella is danced by a couple or couples, short in duration, graceful and elegant, and features characteristic music. The supposedly curative or symptomatic tarantella is danced solo by a supposed victim of a "tarantula" bite, agitated in character, may last for hours or even up to days, and features characteristic music. The confusion appears to arrive from the fact that the spiders, condition, its sufferers ("tarantolati") and the dances all derive their names from the city of Taranto.
The first dance originated in Naples and spread next to Apulia, Basilicata and Calabria. The Neapolitan tarantella is a courtship dance performed by couples whose "rhythms, melodies, gestures and accompanying songs are quite distinct" featuring faster more cheerful music. Its origins may further lie in "a fifteenth-century fusion between the Spanish Fandango and the Moresque 'ballo di sfessartia.'" The "magico-religious" tarantella is a solo dance performed supposedly to cure through perspiration the delirium and contortions attributed to the bite of a spider at harvest (summer) time. The dance was later applied as a supposed cure for the behavior of neurotic women ("'Carnevaletto delle donne'").
Tarantism
Reportedly, victims who had collapsed or were convulsing would begin to dance with appropriate music and be revived as if a tarantula had bitten them. The music used to treat dancing mania appears to be similar to that used in the case of tarantism though little is known about either. Justus Hecker (1795-1850), describes in his work Epidemics of the Middle Ages:
A convulsion infuriated the human frame....Entire communities of people would join hands, dance, leap, scream, and shake for hours....Music appeared to be the only means of combating the strange epidemic...lively, shrill tunes, played on trumpets and fifes, excited the dancers; soft, calm harmonies, graduated from fast to slow, high to low, prove efficacious for the cure.
The music used against spider bites featured drums and clarinets, was matched to the pace of the victim, and is only weakly connected to its later depiction in the tarantellas of Chopin, Liszt, Rossini, and Heller.
While most serious proponents speculated as to the direct physical benefits of the dancing rather than the power of the music a mid-18th century medical textbook gets the prevailing story backwards describing that tarantulas will be compelled to dance by violin music. It was thought that the Lycosa tarantula wolf spider had lent the name "tarantula" to an unrelated family of spiders having been the species associated with Taranto but since the lycosa tarantula is not inherently deadly in summer or in winter, the highly poisonous Mediterranean black widow (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus) may have been the species originally associated with Taranto's anual grain harvest.
Loading...
4:41
Italian Folk Dance Companyby chaton2018,190 views
Hi, Is there a place I can find this song. The Rutgers Italian Club at my University (I am Public Relations) is looking to teach the Tarantella. Thanks!
rabbitsandlove1 2 weeks ago
Extraordinaire! Tarantella ou danse orientale?
aschenbrodel2011 1 month ago
whats the name of this song? beautifully performed!
CelestialMoon88 1 year ago
Hoi Man..
funny you found me...
: )
serenacchera 2 years ago
Sereeeeeeeeena :)) !!!!
How did i find you like this :) !!!
Much Love to you !!!
Eyal
eyal171 2 years ago