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Definition of Landler
1. Noun. Music in triple time for dancing the landler.
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
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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