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Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: ScoreTarantism : suite for guitar [eScore] / Connor D'Netto.by Connor D'Netto (2016)
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Widespread in Southern Italy during the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, the psychological disease is popularly thought to be caused by the bite the wolf spider, Lycosa tarantula (distinct from the broader class of spiders also known as Tarantulas). However, the bite of the Lycosa tarantula does not cause significant ill-effects. Due to its inability to elicit such dramatic behaviour, a better cause of this sickness is the Latrodectus tredecimguttatus, commonly known as the Mediterranean black widow.
Francesco Cancellieri, in his exhaustive treatise on Tarantism, makes semi-scientific observations, as well as discussing popular and historic mentions of the disease, as prominent in Abruzzo, Puglia, and Calabria, Itally:
When one is in the hold of this ill-wished beast, one has a hundred different feelings at a time. One cries, dances, vomits, trembles, laugh, pales, cries, faints, and one will suffer great pain, and finally after a few days, if unaided, you die. Sweat and antidotes relieve the sick, but the sovereign and the only remedy is Music.
Cancellieri (1817)
[New Latin tarantismus, from Taranto, the ancient seaport in Southern Italy, -ism]
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (10p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 13 mins
First performance by Benjamin Ellerby — 7 May 16. Argo: Flow, Spring Hill Reservoir, Brisbane
Includes program note and performance notes.
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