Definition of Landler

1. Noun. Music in triple time for dancing the landler.

Generic synonyms: Dance Music

2. Noun. A moderately slow Austrian country dance in triple time; involves spinning and clapping.

Definition of Landler

1. a slow Austrian dance [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Landler

landing party
landing place
landing ship
landing skids
landing stage
landing strips
landing vehicle tracked
landing vehicles tracked
landings
landladies
landlady
landladyish
landleaper
landleapers
landler (current term)
landlers
landless
landlessness
landlessnesses
landline
landlines
landlocked
landlocked salmon
landloper
landlopers
landlord
landlord's lien
landlordism
landlordisms

Literary usage of Landler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Musical Magazine (1840)
"landler. The landler dance is a German dance in & measure, and of mod- D ' erately ... The landler being externally not at all different from the waltz, ..."

2. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"Then the Tyrolese had to show us their " landler " (country-dance), the true, simple " landler." The eldest brother danced it with their sister, ..."

3. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"Then the Tyrolese had to show us their " landler " (country-dance), ... It was not long before all of us were turning round to the chanted " landler " air. ..."

4. Biographical Dictionary of Musicians: With a Bibliography of English by James Duff Brown (1886)
"Wiener Damen-landler: op. 75. Four Polonaises; op. 77. Valses; op. 78. ... Twelve landler; etc. Masses: No. 1 in F, 1814; No. 2, in G, 1815 ; No. ..."

5. Posthumous Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1884)
"Then the Tyrolese had to show us their "landler" (country dance), ... It was not long before all of us were turning round to the chanted " landler " air. ..."

6. Women Ambassadors Abroad by Mildred Susan Garrett McFaden (1914)
"We listened to a landler tune, Do you recall that night in June We watched ... I know not why that landler rang Through all my soul, but never Can I forget ..."

7. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"A round dance in 3-4 time, and in tempo varying from slow to moderately fast,—from the primitive landler and ordinary German waltz up to the sprightlier ..."

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