Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarantists
Literary usage of Tarantists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"The different forms which the disease assumed were cured by means of different
airs, to which the tarantists —the name by which the patients were known ..."
2. The White Slavery: A Study of the Present Trades Union System by Wiley Britton (1909)
"... the St. Vitus dancers, or the tarantists; that it is largely an organization
of violent, vicious and feeble-minded, controlled and manipulated by bad ..."
3. The White Slavery: A Study of the Present Trades Union System by Wiley Britton (1909)
"While the symptoms and manifestations of those afflicted with the malady, were
almost identical with those of the St. Vitus dancers, the tarantists believed ..."
4. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"The different forms which the disease assumed were cured by means of different
airs, to which the tarantists—the name by which the patients were known—were ..."
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