AtD: Three. Bilocations - Chapter 38 - Section 2 (531-540) . Tarantellical magic

Michel bulb at vheissu.net
Sun Mar 1 07:47:21 CST 2015


Thanks! -  page 534 mentions "a bouncy 6/8"

Op 1-3-2015 14:43, Mark Kohut schreef:
> Tarantella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
>
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantella
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> Wikipedia
> Tarantella is a group of various folk dances characterized by a fast
> upbeat tempo, usually in 6/8 time (sometimes 18/8 or 4/4), accompanied
> by tambourines.
>
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Michel <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:
>> On p. 535 of AtD, following the song text "Oh, the, Quizzical, queer,
>> Quater-nioneer", "its (I guess the song?) time-signature working some
>> ancient tarantellical magic as well"
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>> Nor archives neither wiki says something about tarantellical - indeed
>> Merriam-Webster does not to know the word. Anyone any ideas on this possible
>> neologism? Related to the spider? Why combining it with magic?
>>
>> Michel.
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