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‖ tarantella|tærənˈtɛlə|
Also 9 tarent-, and from F., tarent-, tarantelle.
[It. tarantella (in F. tarentelle, Sp. tarantela), dim. formation from Taranto the town of Tarentum in southern Italy. Popularly associated with tarantola, tarantula the spider, also a deriv. of Taranto. (Etymologically, tarantella might be a further dim. of tarantula: cf. L. fabula, tabula, fabella, tabella.)]
A rapid whirling South Italian dance popular with the peasantry since the fifteenth century, when it was supposed to be the sovereign remedy for tarantism.
1782Char. in Ann. Reg. ii. 11/2 The Tarantella is a low dance, consisting of turns on the heel, much footing and snapping of the fingers. 1844Disraeli Coningsby iv. xi, He could dance a Tarantalla like a Lazaroni. 1866Engel Nat. Mus. vii. 259 According to popular belief, a person bitten by the venomous spider Tarantula can be recovered from the state of nervous disorder which the poison produces, only by dancing the Tarantella until complete exhaustion compels him to desist from the vehement exercise. 1894Times 3 Mar. 11/2 While the plaintiff was dancing a tarantella with a tambourine her foot slipped, owing, as she alleged, to the negligent stretching of the carpet, or ‘stage cloth’.
b. The music for such a dance, or composed in its rhythm, formerly quadruple, but now always in 6–8 time, with whirling triplets, and abrupt transitions from the major to the minor.
1833–5Babington tr. Hecker's Epidemics (1859) 113 The Italians..have retained the Tarantella, as a particular species of music employed for quick lively dancing. 1884C. F. Woolson in Harper's Mag. Jan. 216/1 A gay Tarantella, which set all the house-maids dancing. |