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The siciliana [sitʃiˈljaːna] or siciliano (also known as sicilienne or ciciliano) is a musical style or genre often included as a movement within larger pieces of music starting in the Baroque period. It is in a slow 6 8 or 12 8 time with lilting rhythms, making it somewhat resemble a slow jig or tarantella, and is usually in a minor key.
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 music of Sicily is created by peoples from the isle of Sicily.It was shaped by the island's history, from the island's great presence as part of Magna Grecia 2,500 years ago, through various historical incarnations as a part of the Roman Empire, then as an independent state as the Emirate of Sicily then as an integral part of the Kingdom of Sicily and later the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ...
The dance has several parts beginning with the men and women meeting and going in a procession with the pole. This is followed by a Saltarello-style dance by the couples and then a round dance where the men (unsuccessfully) court the women. A circle is then formed around the pole, the dancers take the colored ribbons and dance a weaving figure.
Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research. 4 (1). Translated by McGowen, M. Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research, Vol. 4, No. 1: 29– 44. doi:10.2307/1290672. JSTOR 1290672. Busoni, Ferruccio (1962). "Sketch for a New Esthetic of Music". Three Classics in the Aesthetics of Music. New York: Dover.
Frederick II, the last great Hohenstaufen Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily, encouraged music at the Sicilian court, which became a refuge for these displaced troubadours, where they contributed to a melting pot of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim musical styles. Italian secular music was largely the province of these jongleurs, troubadors ...
The Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart tracks the most popular tracks played by radio stations using a "dance music" format. Modern dance music is typically a core component of the rhythmic adult contemporary and rhythmic contemporary formats, and an occasional component of the contemporary hit radio format in the case of dance songs which chart.
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