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  • A few numbers (like Malibran's own R-rolling "Rataplan") are clearly display pieces for the famous agilità.

    Bartoli Channels Malibran 2009

  • (Soundbite of song "Rataplan") Ms. BARTOLI: (Singing in foreign language) HARRIS: Bartoli doesn't really know, though, how Malibran rolled her hours because there are no recordings of the 19th-century star.

    Cecilia Bartoli: A Diva and Her Obsession 2007

  • It's an album drawn exclusively for Malibran's repertoire and her own composition, including this, "Rataplan."

    Cecilia Bartoli: A Diva and Her Obsession 2007

  • Rataplan of snares, thubadub of drum, breathless flutes.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Rataplan of snares, thubadub of drum, breathless flutes.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • "It's much too fine, really, to go anywhere except to the Rataplan and play golf."

    The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott

  • So long as they are in a taxi, or at the Rataplan, there is no danger of the document getting away if either of them has it; but until we are certain that they have it, we won't detain them; we want the document to aid us in running down the traitor.

    The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott

  • Well, you went to the Rataplan with Snodgrass -- every movement you two made, from the time you joined Snodgrass at the Chateau until I myself put you in my cab when you returned to the hotel, was observed by numerous and competent shadows.

    The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott

  • He tried for him at the Collingwood, the Cosmopolitan, the Rataplan, and finally at the Chateau.

    The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott

  • They turned in at the Rataplan and drew up at the carriage entrance.

    The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott

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