¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gopak
1. a folk dance [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gopak
Literary usage of Gopak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"... Mater,' ' Ave Maria,' incidental music to 'Nero' (1869), 'A Christmas Song '
and two or three orchestral works, including a ' gopak ' and 'Dance of the ..."
2. Stories by Foreign Authors (1898)
"... blue silk with red borders—stepped forward one by one, their arms akimbo in
stately form, and executed the gopak ; how the lads—in tall Cossack caps, ..."
3. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"... was set in E flat, but was too unwieldy to be carried by the player. Nero,"
a Stabat Mater, an Ave Maria, a " gopak " and a " Dance of the ..."
4. Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Covering the Entire Period of by Leander Jan De Bekker (1908)
"... ("The Power of Evil"), completed by his pupil Soloviev, incidental music to
Nero," a Stabat Mater, an Ave Maria, a " gopak " and a " Dance of the ..."
5. The New Music Review and Church Music Review by American Guild of Organists (1906)
"... sky's gopak the ideal tonal expression of the rustic dance of wooing in which
Alexander Umansky is so convincing in the r61e of the amorous Cossack, ..."
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