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  2. Siciliana - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Tarantella - Wikipedia

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    However, other forms of the dance were and still are dances of couples usually either mimicking courtship or a sword fight. The confusion appears to derive from the fact that the spiders, the condition, its sufferers ( tarantolati ), and the dances all have names similar to the city of Taranto.

  4. Italian folk dance - Wikipedia

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    The dance is also found in Emilia and other areas of Central Italy in several different forms. [35] [56] Tresconeto: A fast dance from Tuscany in 6 8 time resembling the Saltarello. The dance is usually done by a single dancer or couple and the continually increasing tempo of the dance is meant to test the endurance of the dancers.

  5. List of dance styles - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance. For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin .

  6. History of dance - Wikipedia

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    Also, the term "kinesthetic" is the right term to help understanding how dance makes communication, and it means recognition of movement of one's own body, this word is a combination of two words (Greek: kinein "to move", aesthesis "perception"). So dance moves and background sounds play a big role too.

  7. What Does a World Without Men Look Like? Ask Jo Piazza. - AOL

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    In her latest novel, author Jo Piazza unpacks the fleeting feminist phenomenon that swept through Sicily in the early 20th century after one million men left the island for America.

  8. Music of Sicily - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Outline of dance - Wikipedia

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    Solo dance – a dance danced by an individual dancing alone. Partner dancedance with just 2 dancers, dancing together. In most partner dances, one, typically a man, is the leader; the other, typically a woman, is the follower. As a rule, they maintain connection with each other. In some dances the connection is loose and called dance ...