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Updated: May 11, 2025
At dinner it was announced that the famous Tarantella would be danced in the lower hall of the hotel at nine o'clock, and the girls told Uncle John that they must not miss this famous sight, which is one of the most unique in Sorrento, or indeed in all Italy. As they entered the pretty, circular hall devoted to the dance Louise gave a start of surprise.
The tarantella was followed by a polonaise, led by Comte Rodolphe Appony and the Duchesse de Rauzan, resplendent in blue and gold. A more sedate dance, this, performed by noble lords and ladies, all in Hungarian costume, and escorted by pages, bearing their respective banners.
And why I've been overcome with impatience is this. I'm expecting a friend a woman; we're going together to Baiae to eat oysters and oranges, and see the tanned shepherds in red caps dance the tarantella, to bask in the sun, like lizards in short, to enjoy life to the utmost. My dear boy, I am more happy than I can possibly tell you.
Willeby says it is in C major! The Tarantella is in A flat, and is numbered op. 43. Composed at Nohant, it is as little Italian as the Bolero is Spanish. Chopin's visit to Italy was of too short a duration to affect him, at least in the style of dance. It is without the necessary ophidian tang, and far inferior to Heller and Liszt's efforts in the constricted form.
"The first comprehension of the piece," says Schumann, in speaking of the German edition of the Tarantella, "is, unfortunately, rendered very difficult by the misprints with which it is really swarming." Those who assisted Chopin in the work incident to publication more especially by copying his autographs were Fontana, Wolff, Gutmann, and in later years Mikuli and Tellefsen.
The dances were unique and graceful, being executed by a troup of laughing peasants dressed in native costume, who seemed very proud of their accomplishment and anxious to please the throng of tourists present. The Tarantella originated in Ischia, but Sorrento and Capri have the best dancers.
And Etna, snowless Etna, rose to heaven out of this morning world, with its base in the purple glory and its feather of smoke in the calling blue, child of the sea-god and of the god that looks down from the height, majestically calm in the riot of splendor that set the feet of June dancing in a great tarantella.
Kantor broke into an actual tarantella of rage, his hands palms up and dancing. "'What did papa do? she asks. She's got easy asking. 'What did papa do? The whole shop, I tell you. A sheep with a baa inside when you squeeze on him games a horn so he can holler my head off such a knife like Izzy's with a scissors in it!
Kantor broke into an actual tarantella of rage, his hands palms up and dancing. "'What did papa do? she asks. She's got easy asking. 'What did papa do? The whole shop, I tell you. A sheep with a baa inside when you squeeze on him games a horn so he can holler my head off such a knife like Izzie's with a scissors in it.
But the tarantella is a novelty to the sight-seeing tourist, who believes he must see everything in order to be an authority when he gets back home. Giovanni did not return till late that night, and on the morrow Hillard questioned him. "I have been to see a cousin," said Giovanni, "who lives on the way to El Deserta." "Ah! So you have a cousin here?" "Yes, signore."
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