Tarantella_Napoletana

Tarantella Napoletana

Tarantella Napoletana

Melody associated with Italy, particularly Naples

The "Tarantella Napoletana" is the tarantella associated with Naples. It is familiar to North American viewers of popular media as a quintessentially Italian musical riff or melody.

"Tarantella Napoletana"
Performance by the United States Air Force Band's Air Force Strings
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Examples of its use include Gioachino Rossini's "La Danza" from Soirées Musicales (1830–1835).[1]

The tarantella was adapted into the 1950 song "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me" written by Buddy Arnold and Milton Berle, and performed by Evelyn Knight and the Ray Charles Band.[2]

It was also adapted as the starting melody of the Hindi song "Aaja Sanam Madhur Chandni" composed by Shankar-Jaikishan for the film 1965 Indian film Chori Chori.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Lancaster, Jordan (2005). In the Shadow of Vesuvius, pp. 187–188. ISBN 978-1-85043-764-2.
  2. [2]
    "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me". Secondhand Songs.
  3. [3]
    "#LifeIsMusic: Popular Bollywood songs inspired by western music". DNA India. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  4. [4]
    "16 Famous Bollywood Songs You Wouldn't Believe Were Copied From The West". IndiaTimes. 2015-07-10. Retrieved 2023-11-03.


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