Tarantella

Do you remember an Inn, Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn?
And the tedding
and the spreading
Of the straw for a bedding,
And the fleas
that tease
in the Highly Pyrenees,
And the wine that tasted of the tar?
And the cheers and the jeers,
of the young muleteers
(Under the vine of the dark verandah)...

Do you remember an Inn, Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn?
And the cheers and the jeers,
of the young muleteers
Who hadn't got a penny
And who weren't paying any
And the hammer at the doors and the Din?
And the Hip! Hop! Hap!
Of the clap
Of the hands to the twirl
and the swirl
of the girl
gone chancing,
glancing,
dancing,
backing and advancing,
Snapping of the clapper to the spin
Out and in
And the Ting Tong Tang
of the guitar!

Do you remember an Inn, Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn?
Never more, Miranda,
Never more.
Only the high peaks hoar:
And Aragon a torrent at the door
No sound
In the walls
of the Halls
where falls
the tread of the feet of the dead to the ground,
No sound, no sound:
But the boom
of the watterfall
like Doom.

by (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) , "Tarantella", from Sonnets and Verse (1923), published 1923

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Denis ApIvor (1916-2004) , "Tarantella", op. 3 no. ? (1935-40). [medium voice and piano]
by Mervyn Burtch (1929-) , "Tarantella" [SATB chorus]
by Jean Coulthard (1908-2000) , "Tarantella", 1960 [baritone, string quartet, and piano], from Two Night Songs, no. ?
by Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) , "Tarantella", 1932-3 [baritone and orchestra], unfinished
by Gabriel Fontrier (1918-) , "Tarantella", published 1965 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Three Choruses to Texts by Hilaire Belloc, no. ?
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "Tarantella", 1925. [voice and piano]
by Richard Hageman (1882-1966) , "Miranda", published 1940. [voice and piano]
by Christopher Kaye Le Fleming (1908-) , "Tarantella", published 1962 [baritone, SATB chorus, and orchestra], from Valley of Arun, no. ?
by Harold Noble (1903-) , "Do you remember an Inn", published 1965. [TTBB chorus and piano]
by Bertha Rawlinson , "Tarantella", published 1963. [voice and piano]
by Randall Thompson (1899-1984) , "Tarantella", published 1937. [TTBB chorus and orchestra or piano]
by Francis Toye (1883-1964) , "The Inn", published 1925. [baritone and piano]
by Grace Williams (1906-) , "Tarantella", published 1953 [soprano, SSA chorus, and strings or piano], from The Dancers, no. ?

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