The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Baroque style · 1600–1750

The named 6/8 print type of the Baroque tarantella reaches the named Sicilian festa dance.

Influence
Tarantella napoletana practice · 1600–

If the city name and 6/8 type left Naples, Tarantella siciliana hears that label.

Influence

Tarantella siciliana

practice · 18th century–

Also called Sicilian tarantella

Sicilian festa tarantella: village variants plus a later tourist label. It is a practice, a sibling of the other named Southern dances, not a leftover “Sicilian folk” bin. It hears Baroque for the early-modern print type and, contestably, Tarantella napoletana for the city name. Empty extra Given is historically checked: festa and costume-stage stay on this node. Tarantella leftover as a refused umbrella. Other island dances leftover as neighbors, not children. Notte della Taranta leftover as festival billing. Worldbeat leftover as later reception.

Listen

  1. Tarantella siciliana Sicilian festa tradition YouTube
  2. Tarantella Sicilian village players YouTube · Spotify

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Baroque → Tarantella siciliana

meter and grooveform and structurestrength: lowwell documented1700–1900notationdanceoral

Mechanism

The named 6/8 print type of the Baroque tarantella reaches the named Sicilian festa dance. Strength low: a family name and pulse, not a rewrite of local step and kit.

Evidence

Tarantella as a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century published dance; Grove on the name; local festa continuity that does not depend on Naples song.

Debate

Whether these dances need the Baroque book at all. Alternative: older local dances that later borrowed a print name. Keep as a thin, documented naming hop. The thicker city-name claim is tarantella napoletana tarantella siciliana.

Mediators

community: Southern Italian festa musicians

Tarantella napoletana → Tarantella siciliana

meter and groovefunction and contextstrength: lowcontested1750–1900danceoral

Mechanism

If the city name and 6/8 type left Naples, Tarantella siciliana hears that label. Strength low, certainty contested. If these are older local dances that later borrowed the name, this hop dies.

Evidence

Shared family name; print and tourist “tarantella” radiating from Naples; De Martino’s warning that tarantella is a family, not one content.

Debate

Sibling versus donor. Consensus is not settled. Keep the edge; do not mint a tarantella umbrella to tidy it.

Mediators

community: Southern festa and touring Neapolitan musicians