The Neapolitan Tarantella

The Neapolitan tarantella is a folk dance very graceful and lively, it was inspired by someone having been bitten by a poisonous Taruntula. It's fast up-beat tempo induces a frenzied dance in a solo, or a couple...and as they dance they sweat out the poison of the spider's bite. Grandma used to sing this folklorist song, and I danced with her while loud mandolins and tambourines accompanied her cheerful singing... there wasn't an awkward note in her voice. The Neapolitan tarantella, with its frantic rhythms and shrill harmonies infused passion in great composers, and Mendelssohn wrote his symphony... a song dance was composed by Rossini. The Neapolitan tarantella grandiosely plays and everyone stops and listens to its low and high-pitched melody, and with little hesitation they start to dance... beneath my veranda, these folks put on a look of festivity. Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci