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

Michel bulb at vheissu.net
Sun Mar 1 07:52:15 CST 2015


And the dance is mentioned a bit before, on page 511...

Op 1-3-2015 14:47, Michel schreef:
> Thanks! -  page 534 mentions "a bouncy 6/8"
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> Op 1-3-2015 14:43, Mark Kohut schreef:
>> Tarantella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
>>
>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantella
>>
>> 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"
>>>
>>> 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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