Tarantella

I think he can do, like, you know, the, the, the Dan- the Wedding of Gibraltar.

The Tarantella.

Yeah, exactly.

Tarantella.

Da, da, da, da, da, da.

Uh, all right.

Hey, there's a song form that is about spiders, about tarantula.

And so I'll make a weird Baroque, weird distorted Tarantella to be as their theme.

But maybe it was like not quite weird enough.

And so he was like, all right, we're going to add grunting sounds to it.

And he made a grunting Tarantella as the Gargan Rue theme instead.

I will forever now remember it as the grunting Tarantella.

in the title instead did you find that song you're talking about i did i don't think it's as closely related to what we were just listening to as i hoped but i do think it's a good bonus weird piece of music

What song is that?

All you Calabresi do the Mambo like a crazy with.

Hey Mambo, don't want a Tarantella.

Hey Mambo, no more mozzarella.

Hey Mambo.

So in each of the schools where I had been in ministry, I would have what I called a family party on a Sunday evening.

During the school year, I would teach folk dancing to the students as just a little elective, trying to do cultural dances with them, like maybe the Tarantella if I was with the Italian people.

And we always kind of did the Virginia Reel and just played dance.

a thing called bingo where you move to another partner and twirl around and just simple little folk dances.

and when the heat of summer awakened a recollection of the dances of the preceding year they like the st vitus's dancers of the same period before st vitus's day again grew dejected and misanthropic until by music and dancing they dispelled the melancholy which had become with them a kind of sensual enjoyment Under such favourable circumstances it is clear that Tarantism must every year have made further progress.

The number of those affected by it increased beyond all belief, for whoever had either actually been or even fancied that he had been once bitten by a poisonous spider or scorpion made his appearance annually wherever the merry notes of the Tarantella resounded.

inquisitive females joined the throng and caught the disease not indeed from the poison of the spider but from the mental poison which they eagerly received through the eye and thus the cure of the tarantati gradually became established as a regular festival of the populace which was anticipated with impatient delight without attributing more to deception and fraud than to the peculiar nature of a progressive mental malady it may readily be conceived that the cases of this strange disorder now grew more frequent the celebrated mattioli who is worthy of entire confidence gives his account as an eye-witness he saw the same extraordinary effects produced by music as alexandro for however tortured with pain however hopeless of relief the patients appeared as they lay stretched on the couch of sickness at the very first sounds of those melodies which made an impression on them but this was the case only with the tarantellas composed expressly for the purpose they sprang up as if inspired with new life and spirit and unmindful of their disorder began to move in measured gestures dancing for hours together without fatigue until covered with a kindly perspiration they felt a salutary degree of lassitude which relieved them for a time at least perhaps even for a whole year from their defection and oppressive feeling of general indisposition alexandro's experience of the injurious effects resulting from a sudden cessation of the music was generally confirmed by mattioli If the clarinets and drums ceased for a single moment, which, as the most skilful players were tired out by the patience, could not but happen occasionally, they suffered their limbs to fall listless, again sank exhausted to the ground, and could find no solace but in a renewal of the dance.

On this account, care was taken to continue the music until exhaustion was produced, for it was better to pay a few extra musicians who might relieve each other, than to permit the patient, in the midst of this curative exercise, to relapse into so deplorable a state of suffering.

In the middle

of our set, we have the Tarantella dancers this year.

Right.

Right in the middle.

Yeah.

I'm going to feature the girls first.

Then we'll bring the Tarantella dancers up.

And then we'll bring you up.

A catamaran rarely carries a crew of more than two men, and of course needs no ballast.

Three of the most noted of these queer-looking boats are the Amaryllis, which was the first one seen in New York waters, the Tarantella, and the John Gilpin.

End of section 1

Section 2 of Harper's Young People, Volume 1, Issue 43, August 24, 1880.