tarantella

How To Use tarantella In A Sentence

• And suddenly he was up on Joe's back, dancing a tarantella on the mess of thorns and wounds and blood. COLDHEART CANYON
• These he applied with more zeal than precision, just as an American composer might indiscriminately swap a Sicilian tarantella for a Romagnan saltarello. NYT > Home Page
• The room was empty, the bed heaped with bedclothes, the carpet rucked up as though he'd danced a tarantella upon it. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
• Of these, the best known, which I might mention, are the tarantella of the Neapolitans, the bolero and fandango of the Spaniards, the mazurka and cracovienna of Poland, the cosack of Russia, the redowa of Bohemia, the quadrille and cotillion of France, the waltz, polka and gallopade of Germany, the reel and sword dance of Scotland, the minuet and hornpipe of England, the jig of Ireland, and the last to capture America is the tango. The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen
• By the 19th century, however, musicians made more money out of tarantellas by their popularity as compositions.
• Despite the rain, there were more reporters than yesterday, attracted by Pigeon Tony's courtroom tarantella. THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
• The Spaniards dance the paso doble, the Italians dance the tarantella, but the whole word dances the tango," he says. It Takes Two to Tango, So Long as They're Both Argentines
• Of these, the best known, which I might mention, are the tarantella of the Neapolitans, the bolero and fandango of the Spaniards, the mazurka and cracovienna of Poland, the cosack of Russia, the redowa of Bohemia, the quadrille and cotillion of France, the waltz, polka and gallopade of Germany, the reel and sword dance of Scotland, the minuet and hornpipe of England, the jig of Ireland, and the last to capture America is the tango. The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen
• The score has also been slightly rearranged - the ballet opens with a tableau set to Renaissance lute music, while the third-act tarantella is moved into the first act.
• Rossni wrote a famous tarantella, "La danza," as a song for chamber performance, scored for voice and piano. Tarantella