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  2. Tarantella - Wikipedia

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    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 ".

  3. List of tarantellas - Wikipedia

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    It appears in The Legend of 1900 (1998) when Italian immigrants request 1900 to play tarantella music. The tarantella dance is referenced in the film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), where it is the result of a magical curse. Rabbia e Tarantella is in the soundtrack of Inglourious Basterds (2009) by Quentin Tarantino. [12]

  4. Tarantella Napoletana - Wikipedia

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    The tarantella was adapted into the 1950 song "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me", written by Buddy Arnold and Milton Berle, and performed by Evelyn Knight and the Ray Charles Band. [1] It imparts its melody to a Bollywood song "Chahe Koi Kush Hojao" composed by S. D. Burman penned by Sahir Ludhianvi and sung by Kishore Kumar for the 1954 film Taxi Driver.

  5. Grande Tarantelle (Gottschalk) - Wikipedia

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    Grande Tarantelle, Op. 67, is a tarantella written by American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk from 1858-64. Subtitled Célèbre Tarentelle, it was first performed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia in 1864. [1]

  6. Alessandra Belloni - Wikipedia

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    Alessandra Belloni (born July 24, 1954 in Rome) is an Italian musician, singer, dancer, actress, choreographer, teacher, and ethnomusicologist. Her instrument is the Southern Italian tambourine and her music and dance are focused on the traditional roots of tarantella.

  7. Tarantella (ballet) - Wikipedia

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    Tarantella is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Grande Tarantelle by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, arranged by Hershy Kay. The ballet premiered on January 7, 1964, at the New York City Center , performed by New York City Ballet 's Patricia McBride and Edward Villella .

  8. Albert Pieczonka - Wikipedia

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    Albert Emil Theodor Pieczonka (February 10, 1828 – April 12, 1912) was a composer, pianist and music instructor who resided in Germany, England, and the United States.His most famous work, the "Tarantella in A Minor", remains a popular piano standard more than 100 years after his death.

  9. La Danza - Wikipedia

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    "La danza" (Dance) (1835) is a patter song by Gioachino Rossini, in Tarantella napoletana time, the eighth song of the collection Les soirées musicales (1830–1835). The lyrics are by Count Carlo Pepoli ( it ), librettist of Vincenzo Bellini 's opera I puritani .