Tarantella of November

[smdc66]

nice

is it a known tune?

what 's it called?

:ugeek:

 

[Matt Butcher]

She wrote it herself, but she doesn't really do titles, so it's called "Tarantella"...

 

[Tom]

Yup, definite tarantella feel, nice. I've been playing the piano accordion version but the Thanksgiving holiday season madness has descended around here so I don't guess I am going to record that version......thanks to everyone who participated this month...you rock!

 

[smdc66]

......thanks to everyone who participated this month...you rock!

thank you

its been emotional


:ugeek:

 

[Matt Butcher]

Well its far from being November, but to keep the thread going I thought Id post this from my friend:

Part of the summer solstice celebrations in Kings Heath, Birmingham. Im posting it to celebrate a nice event and also to celebrate my friend being back out there playing after smashing up her right hand quite badly 3 years ago.

 

[Glenn]

Nice performance.
The camera man needs a lesson or two though

 

[MrMagoo]

OK, Tarantella time in November:

A waltz is 3/4 time.

A Tarantella is 6/8 time.

So then simply play a waltz twice as fast ???? :b

 

[JIM D.]

Sorry MR. MAGOO 6/8 time is not 3/4 time played fast. Apples & Oranges !!

 

[MrMagoo]

Hummm.

Actually i don't want to play apples and oranges just the November Tarantella. :ch

OK guys, he said: it's a one, and a two and a three :b

 

[JIM D.]

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[Deleted member 48]

B. Loffet made a YT video with Sbrando, a fine tarantella style tune.
The tab and staff notation sheet music is on his website.


Sbrando, danse trad. du Piémont, au diato par Bernard Loffet

A great tune also for the CBA and PA, I play it on the CBA.

 

[Matt Butcher]

Good interesting post Stephen, thank you - I had heard Sbrando played, but by English people under the name of Smarlon ( :lol: or :roll: depending what mood youre in) and sounding quite English. With this video I get whats going on. And though I am no more Italian than Jimmy Shand was, being a bit obsessed with some of this music, I was all ready to complain that you dont get tarantella from Piedmont etc etc. but really there is a strong family resemblance with the saltarello from Abruzzo and the areas around and that is sometimes seen as a type of tarantella. Also the way the B section drops down is like lots of old tunes from the south. Just goes to show how music doesnt have any clear boundaries and everything is connected.

Heres a link:
(Edited - wrong link posted at the first attempt)
Perhaps a bit of an everyday performance from the great Carmelo Pansera, but Ninello Verduci is always great and I find it quite comic that someone is trying to interrupt them.

 

[Deleted member 48]

indeed, it is impossible to make clear boundaries between music genres. Music crosses every border line.
Found some interesting info on the (s)brando, branle and the likes here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branle#Branles_de_village

Loffet seems to have awakened intrest in this Sbrando folk piece, some others have made YT videos of this piece.

Every country/region made its own variants of these dance types, maybe its easier to describe/group these folk dances by meter and rhythm ( 6/8 or 3/4 or ..., or a combination of meters)
I read somewhere already in the renaissance the jig, gigue, giga, tarantella dances were all over Europe.

 

[Matt Butcher]

Well its November, and to continue this fine tradition, in spite of dodgy facial expressions, loose bass buttons and parking charges, to prove to myself that I have picked up a box this year I thought I would post this 30 second video.

 

[BrandyD]

That was entertaining Matt!!! Do you normally practice while sitting in traffic??? LOL. My accordion is way to big to play behind the steering wheel.

Brandy

 

[Matt Butcher]

Next time I will get someone to sit in the passenger seat and play the tambourine.