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| qquito... |
 Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:31 pm |
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Dear Everyone:
There is a piece of tarantella titled "Tarantella Napoletana" which
seems to be very popular. I recently got a copy of sheet music of this
piece for ACCORDION, and this sheet gives "L. Criscuolo" as the
composer and "Pietro Deiro, Jr." as the arranger, and the copyright
was for 1964.
The following are three videos from YOUTube:
1.) DANCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMP8zFjCYn4
2.) ACCORDION SOLO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLl_pGwVCGM
Could anyone provide more information about this beautiful piece of
music and dance? When was it first composed? Was it composed for a
special occasion? Etc..
Thank you for reading and replying!
--Roland |
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| David \"Gus\" Garelick... |
| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:30 pm |
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qquito wrote:
Quote: Dear Everyone:
There is a piece of tarantella titled "Tarantella Napoletana" which
seems to be very popular. I recently got a copy of sheet music of this
piece for ACCORDION, and this sheet gives "L. Criscuolo" as the
composer and "Pietro Deiro, Jr." as the arranger, and the copyright
was for 1964.
It is much much older than 1964. I heard this dance in school in the
early 50s, played on old 78s. It's a very traditional tarantella and
the sheet music you have is probably just an arrangement. I've heard
this tarantella at scores of Italian weddings and cultural events, so
it's probably older than dirt. The Tarantella had its origin in
Southern Italy in the 15th Century and it was said to be used to ward
off the bite of a spider (the tarantula). It was also the subject of a
cult called Tarantism, from Taranta, in southern Italy, which called for
frenzied, trance-like dancing. So this popular dance could likely be
several centuries old.
My band, The Hot Frittatas, is based in Northern California, and we love
to play and discover new tarantellas. The one you mention is the most
common one, but there are hundreds, and I have tapes and CDs recorded in
Sicily that feature wonderful tarantellas played on accordions,
mandolins, bagpipes, panpipes, shepherds pipes, jews harps, etc. One
shameless plug: check out our website and you might sample a couple
tarantellas we do (www.hotfrittatas.com). Enjoy.
GUS GARELICK |
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| Jack Campin - bogus address... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:52 pm |
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Quote: There is a piece of tarantella titled "Tarantella Napoletana" which
seems to be very popular. I recently got a copy of sheet music of
this piece for ACCORDION, and this sheet gives "L. Criscuolo" as the
composer and "Pietro Deiro, Jr." as the arranger, and the copyright
was for 1964.
The following are three videos from YOUTube:
1.) DANCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMP8zFjCYn4
2.) ACCORDION SOLO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLl_pGwVCGM
Could anyone provide more information about this beautiful piece of
music and dance? When was it first composed? Was it composed for a
special occasion? Etc..
The A part, in duple time, is the Egyptian wedding song "Bafta hindi".
I would guess that that A part was floating around the Mediterranean
for a few centuries before the other parts were added.
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| porchgreg at (no spam) aol.com... |
| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:55 am |
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| peanutjake... |
| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:36 pm |
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I danced to this music as far back as 1947. But the figures were different
than your video. We danced it as a couple dance not as a group dance. I
think that the instructions for the dance we did are in a book written by
Michael Herman.
PJ
"qquito" <qquito at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Quote: Dear Everyone:
There is a piece of tarantella titled "Tarantella Napoletana" which
seems to be very popular. I recently got a copy of sheet music of this
piece for ACCORDION, and this sheet gives "L. Criscuolo" as the
composer and "Pietro Deiro, Jr." as the arranger, and the copyright
was for 1964.
The following are three videos from YOUTube:
1.) DANCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMP8zFjCYn4
2.) ACCORDION SOLO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLl_pGwVCGM
Could anyone provide more information about this beautiful piece of
music and dance? When was it first composed? Was it composed for a
special occasion? Etc..
Thank you for reading and replying!
--Roland |
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