tarantella

listen to the pronunciation of tarantella
English - Turkish
Napoliye mahsus oynak bir dans
bu dansın havası
Turkish - Turkish
çabuk tempolu bir Napoli dansı
çok hızlı ve canlı tempoda Napoli dansı
English - English
A rapid dance in 6/8 time, originating in Italy, or a piece of music for such a dance

We learn to understand why our addled minds seize so little with precision, why they are caught up and tossed about in a kind of tarantella by headlines and catch-words, why so often they cannot tell things apart or discern identity in apparent differences.

a lively folk dance of southern Italia in 6/8 time (language=Italiano: from Taranto, Italia, 1782) [Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; see cue/www=Merriam-Webster OnLine]
a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella
{i} energetic whirling dance (Italian); musical piece for this type of dance
Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia
A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula
A rapid italian dance (supposed to cure the bite of a tarantula) [back]
a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons
Italian folks dance Sometimes a single dancer gets up and spins alone until a partner joins in Sometimes several couples stand up together, like a country dance set, although pairs dance individually Girls use tambourines
music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella
a fast Italian dance, or the music for this dance (Taranto; because the dance was thought to be a cure for being bitten by a tarantula ( TARANTULA))
Music suited to such a dance

Related Terms

tarantellas
plural of tarantella
tarantella

    Hyphenation

    tar·an·tel·la

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    () From Italian tarantella, a diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola ‘tarantula’, on the belief that the dance was variously a result of, or cure for, its bite).
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