Perhaps the most commonly recognized folk dance, the tarantella, for example, is Neapolitan, with little diffusion elsewhere in the peninsula. |
It depicts without a doubt a rural scene in southern Italy, for it blends two lively folk dance styles: the saltarello and the tarantella. |
The American artist celebrated his eighty-first birthday at Villa Narcissus, his home on the island of Capri, by dancing the tarantella. |
Was there not in the air the thin sound of a reed flute playing a tarantella? |
The tarantella is key to this sweaty tangle of sacred and profane compulsions. |
They also bring their own contributions: for instance, as this writer could observe, a wonderful tarantella from the Italian area of Salento. |