Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 19 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Saltarello
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|:GAG BAB|d2d ded|c2c ABc|BAB G2B|
GAG BAB|d3 d2e|fed cBA|G3G3:|
|:d2d def|e2d def|e2d cBA|BAB G2B|
d2d def|e2d d2e|fed cBA|1G3 G2B:|2G2G ded||
B2d ded|A2A d2e|fed fed|e2d ded|
B2d ded|A2d d2e|fed cBA|G2d ded|
B2d ded|c2d d2e|fed fed|e2d ded|
B2d ded|c2d d2e|fed cBA|G3 G2B|
|:G2B G2B|B2A ABc|A2c A2c|c2B GAB|
G2B G2B|B2A ABc|ded cBA|1G3 G2B:|2G3 GBc||
|:d3 c3|B3 G2B|A2A cBA|B2G B2c|
d3 c3|B3 G2B|A2A cBA|1G3 B2c:|2G3 B2A||
Saltarello
This is a complete version of the the Galician Muineras that Ceolachan posted the other day.I think that it deserves to be on the site by itself.Perhaps Ceolachan or the Galacians that he has it from only remembered part of the tune.I have it from a live recording of that fine Italian band,Tre Martelli.They introduce it as an Italian tune,a Saltarello.It doesn't matter where it's from,or what it's called,it's a good tune.Often to be heard at sessions here in Belgium.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Oh it's soooo big.... ::drools::
# Posted on October 26th 2004 by armandale
Saltarellos
For the record, this is not the tune on the Waking Maggie CD - but it's a great tune! As far as I know, a Saltarello is a type of dance that was popular in the 16th c. or so, with many variations.
# Posted on October 29th 2004 by Trinil
"Galician Muinieras" ~ close relative but shorter
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/3730
# Posted on November 26th 2005 by ceolachan
"Saltarello" ~ tracin' the roots of madness:
The 'Saltarello' dates from the 14th century, as far as we can go with printed sources, and is a fast, lively and leapin' about Italian dance in time signatures like 9/8-3/4-6/8. As a Medieval to Renaissance courtly dance, with a skipping step at the beginning of each measure, it could be the early predecessor of Irish stepping, eh? As an Italian 'folk dance' I understand it is accompanied by the beating of tambourine, the strumming of guitars and and the raising of voices in song... (Come on GM, this is a wind up, give us some in situ information...
) As far as the tune moving to Galicia and what they've decided to to with it there, well, it ain't no Saltarello, but it may bear some similarities, such is the transmutation of tradition. You just can't pin down things like on a board, it tends to kill them and then they get filed away in glass cabinets to dessicate... Living things take their own course over time...with help...'influences' like the moon...
Now the history bit, is it etymology or entomology, ants all the same ~ from the Italian 'saltare', meaning 'to jump' or 'to leap' or 'to skip', the Latin being 'saltre'...
15th Century Italian Steps:
http://www.pathcom.com/~rosina/steps.htm
http://www.streetswing.com/
http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3sltrlo.htm
& from the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia:
"The saltarello was a lively, merry dance that developed from the galliard in Naples during the 13th century. It was danced in triple meter and named for its peculiar leaping step, after the Italian verb saltare ("to jump"). The saltarello enjoyed great popularity in the courts of medieval and Renaissance Europe and later became a favorite tradition of the Carnival festivities in Rome. After witnessing the Roman Carnival of 1831, the German composer Felix Mendelssohn incorporated the dance into the finale of one of his masterpieces, the Italian Symphony."
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by ceolachan
Hey, in Denmark "Soldier's Joy" has a third part. Am I gonna tell them they've got it wrong? No way...
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by ceolachan
"Saltarello" ~ more
Key signature: C Major
Submitted on November 20th 2007 by andy9876.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7989
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7989/comments
# Posted on November 27th 2007 by ceolachan