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"La danza" (Dance) (1835) is a patter song by Gioachino Rossini, in Tarantella napoletana time, the eighth song of the collection Les soirées musicales (1830–1835). The lyrics are by Count Carlo Pepoli ( it), librettist of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I puritani. "La danza" is a stand-alone chamber vocal piece, rather than part of a larger work.
Franz Liszt transcribed it for piano, and so did Charles-Valentin Alkan (in his 12 Études in All the Minor Keys); Frédéric Chopin used the song as inspiration for his Tarantelle in A-flat, Op. 43; [1] and Ottorino Respighi featured it in La Boutique fantasque. "La danza" was loosely the original source of the popular wedding tarantella " C'è la luna mezzo mare" and its English versions "Oh! Ma-Ma!" and "Lazy Mary". [2]
|: Già la luna è in mezzo al mare, |
|: Now the moon is over the ocean; |
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (February 2014) |
"La danza" (Dance) (1835) is a patter song by Gioachino Rossini, in Tarantella napoletana time, the eighth song of the collection Les soirées musicales (1830–1835). The lyrics are by Count Carlo Pepoli ( it), librettist of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I puritani. "La danza" is a stand-alone chamber vocal piece, rather than part of a larger work.
Franz Liszt transcribed it for piano, and so did Charles-Valentin Alkan (in his 12 Études in All the Minor Keys); Frédéric Chopin used the song as inspiration for his Tarantelle in A-flat, Op. 43; [1] and Ottorino Respighi featured it in La Boutique fantasque. "La danza" was loosely the original source of the popular wedding tarantella " C'è la luna mezzo mare" and its English versions "Oh! Ma-Ma!" and "Lazy Mary". [2]
|: Già la luna è in mezzo al mare, |
|: Now the moon is over the ocean; |