Key signature: Aminor
Submitted on March 31st 2009 by Camael the Flute.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Also known as An Italian Rant, The Italian Rant, La Mantovana.
X: 1
T: Italian Rant
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amin
|:ABcd e2e2| f2ed e2e2|d2de c2c2|BABc A4:|
|:a4 g4 |^fe^fg e4 | e=fed e2 e2| d3e c4|cdec d2 B2|
BcdB c2 A2|ABcd e2e2| f2ed e2e2|d2de c2c2|BABc A4:|
Italian Rant - Italian indeed
This tune is best known as La Mantovana, notated in (among other sources) Il Solaro by Gasparo Zanetti (fl. 1620s - 1645). John Playford included it in several publications, including later editions of The English Dancing-Master. The first section is also related to the principal theme from Smetana's 'The Moldau' and the Israeli National Anthem 'Hatikvah'.
Why is it here?
# Posted on April 1st 2009 by usedbullfrog
Presumably for 8 reasons
# Posted on April 6th 2009 by Alancorsini
Italian Rant
The tune is shown here as in A minor (no sharps or flats and I stand ready to be corrected) but I think it is more commonly played in G minor. We try to play this in our Four Marks Folk Band Sessions. I am told there is a C part to the tune.
# Posted on March 6th 2012 by devenport