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Definition of Tarantellas
1. tarantella [n] - See also: tarantella
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarantellas
Literary usage of Tarantellas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1883)
"Songs and tarantellas have therefore to be provided by some means or another,
and a number of the best-looking specimens of the ..."
2. The Epidemics of the Middle Ages by Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker, Benjamin Guy Babington (1859)
"... It is to be regretted that on this subject we are unable to give any further
information, for only small fragments of songs, and a very few tarantellas, ..."
3. The Epidemics of the Middle Ages by Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker, Benjamin Guy Babington (1859)
"... and a very few tarantellas, have been preserved which belong to a period so
remote as the beginning of the seventeenth, or at furthest the end of the ..."
4. Stephen Heller: His Life and Works by Hippolyte Barbedette, Robert Brown Borthwick (1877)
"For he has written seven tarantellas and one Venitienne, which is indeed only
another variety of the same. The Venitienne (Op. 52) and the Tarantella (Op. ..."
5. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"... 1641), Book III., cap. viii., has preserved a few specimens. He says that the
tarantellas of his day were mostly rustic ..."
6. Music: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and (1896)
"With surprising versatility he writes Spanish Dances, which Sarasate might envy,
tarantellas and Czardas, which are truly national, and carries every art ..."
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