How To Use Mazurka In A Sentence
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The recital consists of essentially triple-time dance music - mazurkas, waltzes, and polonaises - although you might find it difficult to trip the light fantastic to any of this.
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She uses few raw materials, the most prominent of these being a melancholy, dance-like theme that would not have been out of place in one of Chopin's mazurkas.
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Mazurkas, which are supereminently Chopin-ical; that do NOT we.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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Scriabin's early works, until about 1903, are lyrical and effusive, formally inspired by Chopin (waltzes, mazurkas, ballades, preludes, impromptus and scherzos), though where content was concerned his voice was very much his own.
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Promenade," and "Mazurka" are to be mentioned, and a number of pieces for violin and piano, among them a finely built intermezzo, a berceuse, a romanza that should be highly effective, and a witty scherzino.
Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
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Promenade," and "Mazurka" are to be mentioned, and a number of pieces for violin and piano, among them a finely built intermezzo, a berceuse, a romanza that should be highly effective, and a witty scherzino.
Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
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He appropriated the forms and even the names of that composer's most famous works, writing dozens of preludes, mazurkas, scherzos and waltzes.
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Does a discussion of the Lydian mode really enhance the layman's enjoyment of a mazurka?
Ganz's copious, commanding Chopin project
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Oh, yes, I had three waltzes, the second quadrille and the mazurka, and he is ever so courteous, and kind, and gentlemanly!
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The corps danced with an invigorating snap in the mazurka and the czardas.
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He had no interest in politics, but the specificity of the mazurka's Polish origins could not have escaped him.
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The four top prizes include $18,000, $12,000, $8,000 and $5,000, with special $1,000 prizes for the best performance of a mazurka, polonaise and concerto.
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He tweaked and refined each scene, revising whole sections, such as the mazurka and czardas, which had been altered for television.
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The talented Dordan group has won widespread acclaim for their unique sound - a blend of lively traditional jigs and reels, haunting slow airs, traditional songs along with mazurkas, sonatinas and waltzes.
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Of these, the best known, which I might mention, are the tarantella of the Neapolitans, the bolero and fandango of the Spaniards, the mazurka and cracovienna of Poland, the cosack of Russia, the redowa of Bohemia, the quadrille and cotillion of France, the waltz, polka and gallopade of Germany, the reel and sword dance of Scotland, the minuet and hornpipe of England, the jig of Ireland, and the last to capture America is the tango.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen
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Other 19th-century examples include mazurkas, nocturnes, and études by Chopin.
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Mr. Gotthard replied, 'that he had bought the mazurka as Chopin's autograph from a Polish countess, who, being in sad distress, parted, though with the greatest sorrow, with the composition of her illustrious compatriot.'
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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Of these, the best known, which I might mention, are the tarantella of the Neapolitans, the bolero and fandango of the Spaniards, the mazurka and cracovienna of Poland, the cosack of Russia, the redowa of Bohemia, the quadrille and cotillion of France, the waltz, polka and gallopade of Germany, the reel and sword dance of Scotland, the minuet and hornpipe of England, the jig of Ireland, and the last to capture America is the tango.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen
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For instance, he's fond of a side-skipping, mazurka-like cabriole; here it was too-often muddy, without the necessary stretch and clarity.
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When I danced the mazurka with him, though, I asked him about it.
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Mr. CARLOS SANDRONI (Ethnomusicologist, University of Pernambuco): You have polka, waltz and - what's more - mazurka.
Forro: A Brazilian Take On The Music Of Europe
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This does seem peculiar because she spends chunks of the books at the various village festa dancing mazurkas badly when sufficiently fortified by local wine.
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He would rise sharply into a fifth sous-sus to explode into a buoyant jump, peppered with the gigue, czardas, or mazurka of his beloved character dance.
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A Dordán concert will include lively jigs and reels, haunting slow airs, traditional songs and a variety of mazurkas, polkas, waltzes and more.
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The Polish polkas and mazurkas, with their changing and fugitive rhythmus and their lively, uneven time, admirably embody the light and graceful spirit of this people.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science
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My last remarks hold good with the fourth mazurka, which is bleak and joyless till, with the entrance of A major, a fairer prospect opens.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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And I think something that's special about this particular performance and this mazurka, it points out something that you can find in many places in Chopin's music, which is fascinating to me, and that is this idea that the music sounds like it's off the cuff, and it couldn't be further from the truth.
Chopin With A Polish Touch
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The three mazurkas included in this opus are delightful and not too difficult.
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There are incredible details in his mazurkas, and he has found how to make them doubly interesting by playing them with the utmost degree of gentleness, with a superlative softness.
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There was the streaming of lamps and chandeliers, the swell of enchanting music, the whirl of the fascinating polka, redowa or mazurka, while throngs of richly attired and lovely women were constantly enhancing the magnificence of the scene by their arrival.
Edmond Dantès
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This does seem peculiar because Lucy spends chunks of the books at the various village festas dancing mazurkas badly when sufficiently fortified by local wine.
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I would recommend Vladimir Horowitz's recordings of the études and mazurkas, Artur Rubinstein's recordings of the polonaises and concertos, and Luiz de Moura-Castro's recordings of the ‘Ballade in G minor’ and the nocturnes.
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HUIZENGA: So this particular mazurka, it starts out with a very identifiable theme, and it's fine, and you think you know where it's going.
Chopin With A Polish Touch
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But many Poles hold on to him as a very special person, a very special musician whose music really says Poland, especially when he took different forms, Polish dances, like the mazurka, and took a rustic dance and made high art out of it.
Chopin With A Polish Touch
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It is notorious that many of the leases of new dwelling-houses contain a clause against dancing, lest the premises should suffer from a mazurka, tremble at a gallopade, or fall prostrate under the inflictions of "the parson's farewell," or "the wind that shakes the barley.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
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Sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom Natasha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas de chale, but at this last ball only the ecossaise, the anglaise, and the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced.
War and Peace
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The recital consists of essentially triple-time dance music - mazurkas, waltzes, and polonaises - although you might find it difficult to trip the light fantastic to any of this.
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The mazurka part is how the poem 'turns' on its one-word lines, all of them adjectives.
John Seed: Mazurki: The Multiple Meanings of a Philip Guston Drawing
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You had Polish dance tunes like krakowiak, oberek, no wesloo, mazur, and polonez and of course polkas and mazurkas and waltzes.
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Elsewhere, he excelled in Chopin's smaller works, especially the mazurkas, to which he brought unusual lapidary refinement.
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He knew four dances, two spring-dances, a halling1and an old, so-called Napoleon waltz; but he had been obliged gradually to turn the halling into a schottische by taking it in different time; and in the same way a springdance had to do duty as a polka-mazurka.
Chapter IV
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It is unlike the waltz, the gavotte, the country dance, the Scotch reel, the Spanish Cachucha, the Hungarian mazurka; is far worse than jota Arragonese, or the most lascivious of Spanish dances of Andalusia.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
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This early work is essentially a mazurka on a large scale.
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The musical canvas of the Polish carol is formed above all by the melodies and rhythms of dances such as mazurkas, krakowiaks, obereks, kujawiaks, polonaises, and sentimental dumkas or elegies.
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As we enter the Great Nicholas Hall, the opulent room is filled with thousands of aristocrats dancing the mazurka in gorgeous period costumes.
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The Home circle: a collection of piano-forte music consisting of the most favorite marches, waltzes, polkas, redowas, schottisches, galops, mazurkas, quadrilles, dances, etc.
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Between polonaises and mazurkas, character teacher David Boyet emphasizes artistry as he demonstrates epaulement.
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There are, for example, a polka, a fughetta, a rondo, a rondino, an impromptu, a mazurka, a barcarolle, two arabesques, a ragtime, three polonaises, a tango and a rumba, not to mention a sequence of four nocturnes.
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Everyone in the house could hear waltzes and mazurkas.
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This elegant restraint runs over into the third mazurka.
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The three mazurkas included in this opus are delightful and not too difficult.
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The talented Dordan group has won widespread acclaim for their unique sound - a blend of lively traditional jigs and reels, haunting slow airs, traditional songs along with mazurkas, sonatinas and waltzes.
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In a short scene the Poles, characterised by mazurkas and polonaises, lament the downturn in their fortunes and decide to go in search of the new Russian Tsar and capture him.
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The flyer is a different shape too, and won`t accomodate the new Mazurka bobbins which is a pity as the new bobbins have two ratios.
Archive 2006-01-01
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This collection of Italian waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and tarantellas for solo violin is an excellent teaching tool for double stops, scales, arpeggios and style.
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What if we'd been hearing the waltzes and mazurkas as china figurines in a glass cabinet, and the songs without words as lavish furnishings without vulgar display?
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(Soundbite of song, "Mazurka in F Sharp Minor") RAZ: And that mazurka we're hearing, Tom, is by the great Arthur Rubinstein.
Chopin With A Polish Touch
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The folk dances finding their accompaniment to this music - the Hungarian czardas, the Polish mazurka, the German waltz, the Russian trepak, and even English Morris dancing - have a recognizably formalized shape.
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Unlike the strictly timed moves of the waltzes and mazurkas of Nobility, these dances were from the heart.
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This collection of Italian waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and tarantellas for solo violin is an excellent teaching tool for double stops, scales, arpeggios and style.
