Tarantella mon amour playlist

For Gioachino Rossini, it was simply “the dance” tout court. The tarantella had been danced for centuries in southern Italy, and was often associated with a ritual to heal those infected by a syndrome caused by the bite of a tarantula spider (hence the name). Over the centuries the tarantella has become a symbol of Italian music to the point of being cited in classical music compositions, but above all providing a rhythmic structure to countless songs of the Neapolitan repertoire, in the Italian language and Italian American pidgin.