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Adam Swayne - Tarantella

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Adam Swayne Tarantella

As with all my recent works including ‘Go Down Hoe Down’ for wind orchestra and ‘Lezghinka’ for trumpet and piano, ‘Tarantella’ mixes traditional dance music with more modern styles. The Tarantella is an energetic dance from southern Italy that became fashionable amongst London high-society during Victorian times.

According to popular legend, the victim of a deadly Tarantula bite dances the Tarantella: the faster the dance, the faster the poison courses through the veins of the body, and the quicker the death. In reality the Tarantula bite is not fatal, but I have tried hard not to let facts bother me too much. My Tarantella imagines what Rossini’s ‘Danza Napolitana’ would sound like if danced by someone on the brink of a gruesome and agonising demise.

The clarinettist is bitten in bar 1 of the work. As the spider scuttles away the poison begins to seep into the victim. Tarantula poison is pure and lethal, so I have represented it using the ‘white notes’ on the piano in various guises: scales, glissandi, clusters and chord patterns in C major. Rossini’s dance, in F# minor, eventually establishes itself and appears prominently several times. Ultimately it is skewed, distorted and destroyed by the poison as both performers become gripped in a final deadly seizure.

‘Tarantella’ was commissioned by the Ebony Duo with funds from the Scottish Arts Council and Hope Scott Trust and premiered by them at Napier University in 2008.

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from .​.​.​because it's spring, released December 5, 2011
Adam Swayne Piano, Steve Dummer Clarinet

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