"in a protracted episode in ""War and Peace"", the dance is prominently featured in Ivan Turgenev's novel ""Fathers and Sons"". Arkady reserves the mazurka for Madame Odintsov with whom he is falling in love. During Russian balls, it was danced elegantly and famously by the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, the second-to-last tsarina of the Russian empire before its collapse in 1918. In Swedish folk music, the quaver or eight-note polska has a similar rhythm to the mazurka, and the two dances have a common origin. The international version of the mazurka was also introduced under that name during the nineteenth century."
"The mazurka survives in some old time fiddle tunes, and also in early Cajun music, though it has largely fallen out of Cajun music now. In the Southern United States it was sometimes known as a “mazuka”. In addition to being part of the repertoire of Irish traditional music sessions, the mazurka has been played by a wide variety of cultural groups in California. The mazurka first came to Alta California during the Spanish period and danced among Californios. Later, the renowned guitarist Manuel Y. Ferrer, who was born in Baja California to Spanish parents and learned guitar from a"
"different. The mazurka began as a dance for either four or eight couples. Eventually, Fokine created a female solo mazurka dance dominated by flying ""grandes jetés"", alternating second and third arabesque positions, and split-leg climactic postures. The dance was common as a popular dance in Europe and the United States in the mid- to late nineteenth century. In Cape Verde the mazurka is also revered as an important cultural phenomenon played with acoustic bands led by a violinist and accompanied by guitarists. It also takes a variation of the mazurka dance form and is found mostly in the north of"
"Project in 1939 in Tuolumne County. Mazurka The ""mazurka"" (in Polish mazurek, plural ""mazurki"") is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with ""strong accents unsystematically placed on the second or third beat"". The folk origins of the ""mazurek"" are two other Polish musical forms which are the slow ""kujawiak"", and the fast ""oberek"". The ""mazurek"" is always found to have either a triplet, trill, dotted eighth note (quaver) pair, or an ordinary eighth note pair before two quarter notes (crotchets). In the 19th century, the dance became popular in many ballrooms in different"
"century, as well as in the first half of the twentieth century. Several Curaçao-born composers, such as Jan Gerard Palm, Joseph Sickman Corsen, Jacobo Palm, Rudolph Palm and Wim Statius Muller, have written mazurkas. In Mexico, composers Ricardo Castro and Manuel M Ponce wrote mazurkas for the piano in a Chopin fashion, eventually mixing elements of Mexican folk dances. In the Philippines, the mazurka is a popular form of traditional dance. The Mazurka Boholana is one well-known Filipino mazurka. In Portugal the mazurka became one of the most popular traditional European dances through the first years of the annual Andanças,"
"Mazurka The ""mazurka"" (in Polish mazurek, plural ""mazurki"") is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with ""strong accents unsystematically placed on the second or third beat"". The folk origins of the ""mazurek"" are two other Polish musical forms which are the slow ""kujawiak"", and the fast ""oberek"". The ""mazurek"" is always found to have either a triplet, trill, dotted eighth note (quaver) pair, or an ordinary eighth note pair before two quarter notes (crotchets). In the 19th century, the dance became popular in many ballrooms in different parts of Europe. The Polish national"
"been introduced to the French Caribbean in the late 1800s. In the 21st century in Brazil and the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, ""zouk"" (and its progenitor-band Kassav’) remains very popular. In popular 20th century folk dancing in France, the Polish/classical-piano (see Chopin) ""mazurka"" evolved into ""mazouk"", a dance at a more gentle pace (without the traditional 'hop' step on the 3rd beat), fostering more-intimate dancing and associating mazouk with a “seduction” dance (see also tango from Argentina). This “sexy” style of mazurka has also been imported to “balfolk"" dancing in Belgium and the Netherlands, hence the name ""Belgian Mazurka"" or ""Flemish Mazurka""."
"In Brazil, the composer Ernesto Nazareth wrote an chopiniesque mazurka called ""Mercedes"" in 1917. Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote a mazurka for classical guitar in a similar musical style to Polish mazurkas. In Cuba, composer Ernesto Lecuona wrote a piece titled ""Mazurka en Glisado"" for the piano, one of various commissions throughout his life. In Nicaragua, Carlos Mejía Godoy y los de Palacaguina and Los Soñadores de Saraguasca made a compilation of mazurkas from popular folk music, which are performed with a violin de talalate, an indigenous instrument from Nicaragua. In Curaçao the mazurka was popular as dance music in the nineteenth"
"Perhaps the most enduring style of intimate dancing music of this origin moved ""zouk"" from the 1980s-2000s into its wildly popular (especially in Brazil and Africa) slow-dancing variant called ""zouk love"", which remains a staple of French-Caribbean dance venues in Paris and elsewhere. Mazurkas constitute a distinctive part of the traditional dance music of County Donegal, Ireland. As a couple's dance, it is no longer popular. The Polish dance entered the British Isles in the 1840s, but is not widely played outside of Donegal. Unlike the Polish mazurek, which may have an accent on the second or third beat of"
"Debussy's is a stand-alone piece, and Ravel's is part of a suite of an early work, ""La Parade"". Jacques Offenbach included a mazurka in his ballet ""Gaîté Parisienne""; Léo Delibes composed one which appears several times in the first act of his ballet ""Coppélia"". The mazurka appears frequently in French traditional folk music. In the French Antilles, the mazurka has become an important style of dance and music. A creolised version of the mazurka is ""mazouk"" which—beginning around 1979 in Paris—morphed into the globally popular dance style “zouk” developed in France and popularised by Paris’s Island-creole supergroup Kassav’; ""mazouk"" had"
"covered with a layer made of dried fruit, almonds, egg yolks creamed with sugar and whipped egg white and baked again. The cake's name may have its origins in the Mazur (or Masurian) tribe inhabiting the Mazovia region of central Poland. Another theory says it might originate from the word (Polish for mazurka), traditional folk dance in triple metre from Poland. A shortcrust pastry, Mazurek is considered one of the primary desserts of Easter across Poland. What distinguishes it from other festive dessert cakes is the abundance of decoration with dried fruit and nuts, its overall sweetness, and chocolate icing,"
"present-day Poland following the Second World War; hence the genres of mazurka, polka in addition to the waltz. One of the more famous composers of classical music and Nicaraguan waltz was Jose de la Cruz Mena who was actually not from the northern regions of Nicaragua but rather from the city of Leon in Nicaragua. More nationally identified however, are musical instruments such as the marimba which is also common across Central America. The marimba of Nicaragua is uniquely played by a sitting performer holding the instrument on his knees. It is usually accompanied by a bass fiddle, guitar and"
"basis was tamburitza was created and named the Croatian Radio-Television Tamburitza Orchestra. Croatian Tamburitza continues to be popular in Croatia and in North America thanks to the Croatian Fraternal Union and Duquesne University. Croatian tamburica Croatian tamburitza (tam•bu•rit•za) is a folk song played with a tambura (cousins with Russian balalaika and the Italian mandolin) and is accompanied with a dance. The origin is most commonly thought to be introduced from the Turks by way of Bosnia between the 14th and 16th century. Although, others believe that the tambura was introduced by the Persians. It was not until the 19th century"
"Mazurka (film) Mazurka is a 1935 German drama film directed by Willi Forst and starring Pola Negri, Albrecht Schoenhals and Ingeborg Theek. A woman is put on trial for murdering a predatory musician. It takes its name from the Mazurka, a Polish folk dance. Warner Brothers Studios acquired the U.S. distribution rights but shelved the film in favor of its own scene-by-scene 1937 English language remake, ""Confession"", which starred Kay Francis. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hermann Warm. It was partly shot on location in Warsaw. The film was made by Cine-Allianz whose Jewish owners Arnold"
"whole field seem unhip to young audiences, and many traditions dwindled rapidly. Polish dance music, especially the mazurka and polonaise, were popularized by Frédéric Chopin, and they soon spread across Europe and elsewhere. These are triple time dances, while five-beat forms are more common in the northeast and duple-time dances like the krakowiak come from the south. The polonaise comes from the French word for ""Polish"" to identify its origin among the Polish aristocracy and nobility, who had adapted the dance from a slower walking dance called ""chodzony"". The polonaise then re-entered the lower-class musical life, and became an integral"
"Mazurkas, Op. 7 (Chopin) The Mazurkas, Op. 7 are a set of five mazurkas by Frédéric Chopin. The mazurkas were written in 1830 – 1832. A typical performance of all five mazurkas takes a little over eleven minutes. The first mazurka is marked ""Vivace"" and is perhaps the most well-known mazurka of the set. Despite the ""Vivo, ma non troppo"" marking, the mazurka is usually slowly performed, and the main theme is relatively mild. The third mazurka is the only one in the set to feature no repeats. This mazurka was originally composed in 1824; Chopin revised it and put"
"to represent the women and elderly men who waited for the Polish soldiers to return home and liberate their fatherland. The route that Dąbrowski and his legions hoped to follow upon leaving Italy is hinted at by the words ""we'll cross the Vistula, we'll cross the Warta"", two major rivers flowing through the parts of Poland that were in Austrian and Prussian hands at the time. The melody of the Polish anthem is a lively and rhythmical mazurka. Mazurka as a musical form derives from the stylization of traditional melodies for the folk dances of Mazovia, a region in central"
"throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia. Polka is still a popular genre of folk music in many European countries and is performed by folk artists in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Slovakia. Local varieties of this dance are also found in the Nordic countries, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Latin America (especially Mexico), and in the United States. German Volkslieder perpetuated by Liederhandschriften manuscripts like ""Carmina Burana"" date back to medieval Minnesang and Meistersinger traditions. Those folk songs"
"Murzilka Murzilka () is a popular Soviet/Russian illustrated magazine for 6–12 years olds. It has been published since May 1924. At the end of the 19th century a Canadian illustrator and writer Palmer Cox created a cycle of poems about little people brownie. Later a Russian author Anna Hvolson started writing stories based on his drawings about little forest men. She called the main character who wore a white tie, had a walking stick and a monocle ""Murzilka"". The first issue of the magazine came out on 16 May 1924 in the Soviet Union. It is published on a monthly"
"many traditions dwindled rapidly. Polish dance music, especially the mazurka and polonaise, were popularized by Frédéric Chopin, and they soon spread across Europe and elsewhere. These are triple time dances, while five-beat forms are more common in the northeast and duple-time dances like the krakowiak come from the south. The 'polonaise' comes from the French word for 'Polish' used to identify its origin among the Polish aristocracy who had adapted the dance from a slower walking dance called ""chodzony"". The polonaise then re-entered the lower-class musical life, and became an integral part of the Polish music. While folk music lost"
"Croatian tamburica Croatian tamburitza (tam•bu•rit•za) is a folk song played with a tambura (cousins with Russian balalaika and the Italian mandolin) and is accompanied with a dance. The origin is most commonly thought to be introduced from the Turks by way of Bosnia between the 14th and 16th century. Although, others believe that the tambura was introduced by the Persians. It was not until the 19th century that tamburitza gained popularity during several nationalist movements against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Many societies such as Croatian, Slovak and Czech, used national folk songs and dance as an ""expression of their national identity""."
"Mazurkas, Op. 17 (Chopin) Mazurkas, Op. 17 is a set of four mazurkas for piano by Frédéric Chopin, composed and published between 1832 and 1833. A typical performance of the set lasts about fourteen minutes. Frédéric Chopin composed his Op. 17 in 1832-33 and they were published in Leipzig in 1834. During the time that Chopin was composing the mazurkas, he had recently settled in France, as he had become a refugee from Poland, however, he hoped he could move back to Poland when the political system had changed. This hope was never realised. Even though Chopin had moved away"
"and mazurkas, bear little reminiscences to those of Chopin. Another of his favorite genres was march. His compositions did not gain success even during his life, and he was not interested in this. Kleczyński explained such a fail through their relative difficulty: Wielhorski asks for much larger hands than it was typical in salon music. His friend composer Aleksander Zarzycki performed some pieces by Wielhorski in concerts. He died in hotel in Sanremo, Italy, in an elevator accident. Józef Wielhorski (composer) Count Józef Wielhorski (1816/1817–1892) was Polish pianist and composer. Józef Wielhorski was born in Rusinów, Radom Governorate, in 1817"
"Zubivka The zubivka (, ) also known as a (Skosivka, Skisna Dudka, or Frukanka). The zubivka is considered one of the oldest folk wind instruments in Ukraine and is found primarily in the Carpathian region. It was first described by wandering Arabic scholars in the 11th century. This instrument is very similar to the telenka, only instead of having a fipple, it is played like the sopilka or frilka, by having the breath break against the side of the pipe. This surface is wedge-shaped. The zubivka is usually approximately 60 cm (24 in) long. As with many Ukrainian folk instruments"
"played in the Carpathians, the zubivka is also known and played by musicians in other ethnic groups in contact with the Ukrainians. Zubivka The zubivka (, ) also known as a (Skosivka, Skisna Dudka, or Frukanka). The zubivka is considered one of the oldest folk wind instruments in Ukraine and is found primarily in the Carpathian region. It was first described by wandering Arabic scholars in the 11th century. This instrument is very similar to the telenka, only instead of having a fipple, it is played like the sopilka or frilka, by having the breath break against the side of"
"a traditional dances festival held nearby Castelo de Vide. In Russia, many composers wrote mazurkas for solo piano: Scriabin (26), Balakirev (7), Tchaikovsky (6). Borodin wrote two in his ""Petite Suite"" for piano; Mikhail Glinka also wrote two, although one is a simplified version of Chopin's Mazurka No. 13. Tchaikovsky also included mazurkas in his scores for ""Swan Lake"", ""Eugene Onegin"", and ""Sleeping Beauty"". The mazurka was a common dance at the balls of the Russian Empire and it is depicted in many Russian novels and films. In addition to its mention in Leo Tolstoy's ""Anna Karenina"" as well as"
"a bar, the Irish mazurka (""masúrca"" in the Irish language) is consistently accented on the second beat, giving it a unique feel. Musician Caoimhín Mac Aoidh has written a book on the subject, ""From Mazovia to Meenbanad: The Donegal Mazurkas"", in which the history of the musical and dance form is related. Mac Aoidh tracked down 32 different mazurkas as played in Ireland. Mazurkas are part of Italian popular music including the Ball Liscio style. Typical of Italian mazurkas are groups of triplets, strong dotted rhythms, and phrase endings of two accented quarter notes and a rest, unlike a waltz."
"Polka The polka is originally a Czech dance and genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. The polka remains a popular folk music genre in many European countries, and is performed by folk artists in the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Finland, and to a lesser extent in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Ukraine, Romania, Belarus, Russia, and Slovakia. Local varieties of this dance are also found in the Nordic countries, Spain's Basque Country, the United"
"developed in Croatia and Serbia by a number of indigenous contributors near the end of the 19th century. There is little reliable data showing how the tamboura entered Central Europe. It already existed during Byzantine Empire, and the Greeks and Slavs used to call ""pandouras"" (see pandoura) or ""tambouras"" the ancestor of modern bouzouki. The instrument was referred to as θαμπούριν, ""thambourin"" in the Byzantine Empire (confer Digenis Akritas, Escorial version, vv. 826-827, ed. and transl. Elizabeth Jeffrey). It is said it was probably brought by the Turks to Bosnia, from where the instrument spread further with migrations of Šokci"
"known as a ""Chopin genre"". Chopin started composing his mazurkas in 1825, and continued composing them until 1849, the year of his death. The number of mazurkas composed in each year varies, but he was steadily writing them throughout this time period. Since Chopin's mazurkas connect to the already established traditional Polish mazurka, some of the characteristics of the genre remain the same in his interpretation. For example, both the traditional mazurka and Chopin's version contain a great deal of repetition. This can mean repetition of a single measure or small group of measures, repetition of a theme, or even"
"of dance and accompanying music called polka is generally attributed to a young woman, Anna Slezáková (born Anna Chadimová). The music teacher Josef Neruda noticed her dancing in an unusual way to accompany a local folk song called ""Strýček Nimra koupil šimla"", or ""Uncle Nimra Bought a White Horse"", in 1830. She is said to have called the dance ""Maděra"" (""Madeira wine"") because of its liveliness. The dance was further propagated by Neruda, who put the tune to paper and taught other young men to dance it. Čeněk Zíbrt notices that a common claim that the events happened in Týnec"
"Polka-mazurka The polka-mazurka is a dance, musically similar to the mazurka, but danced much like the polka. Many polka-mazurkas were composed by Johann Strauss II and his family. Johann Strauss I did not compose any of this type of music; the first polka-mazurka example written by the Strauss family was in the year 1854 by Johann Strauss II, entitled La Viennoise op. 144.The polka-mazurka was not credited to the Strauss family alone, as many Viennese composers in the 1850s era also wrote many examples. This variant of the polka was seen as cross-cultural, as many of its influences can be"
"contributing to its prolonged freshness. Although considered uniquely Polish, almost a seasonal national dessert, the recipe for Mazurek came to Poland most likely from the East, via the spice trade-route from Turkey in the early 17th century. Its symbolism is closely associated with the period of """" (Polish for Lent) thus marking its successful completion. In fact, after a 40-day fast (not a total abstinence from food by any means), which is celebrated in Christian liturgy in memory of the Temptation of Christ, mazurek was supposed to be the rich reward for adherence to faith and tradition. Although today, the"