Definition of Mazurka

1. Noun. Music composed for dancing the mazurka.

Generic synonyms: Dance Music

2. Noun. A Polish national dance in triple time.
Generic synonyms: Folk Dance, Folk Dancing

Definition of Mazurka

1. Noun. (music) A Polish folk dance in triple time, usually moderately fast, containing a heavy accent on the third beat and occasionally the second beat. ¹

2. Noun. (music) A classical musical composition inspired by the folk dance and conforming in some respects to its form, particularly as popularized by Chopin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mazurka

1. a Polish dance [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mazurka

mazological
mazologist
mazologists
mazology
mazolysis
mazoola
mazopathy
mazopexy
mazoplasia
mazourka
mazourkas
mazout
mazouts
mazuma
mazumas
mazurka (current term)
mazurkalike
mazurkas
mazut
mazuts
mazy
mazzard
mazzard cherry
mazzards
mazzebah
mazzebahs
mazzeboth
mazzettiite
maître d's
mb

Literary usage of Mazurka

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

1. Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy (1899)
"CHAPTER XXII THE mazurka THE young man whom I had robbed of his lady danced in the first ... She declared that everybody danced the mazurka on their toes, ..."

2. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"The mazurka (or Masurek, as it is sometimes called) is a 3/4 dance in ... Sometimes the mazurka is written with a continual drone-bass in the left hand. ..."

3. Dwight's Journal of Music by John Sullivan Dwight (1878)
"mazurka Twilight Serenade Whispering Angels Here is a musical feast for young ... Blooming Floweret mazurka " Blue Eyes Galop " Curly Hair Waltz " Daisy's ..."

4. A Handbook of Rhythmical Balance Exercises by Ethel Perrin, Mary Seely Starks (1906)
"mazurka-STEP TEMPO I. Slide L <—I cut R, / L leg <— I hop R, у L 5th I This is the L mazurka-step Slide L \ I cut R, / L leg \ I hop R, у L 5th 1 This îs ..."

5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Arthur Stedman (1894)
"... kingly effigy still wear, Let metals base or precious in them mix : The painted vellum hallows not the Prayer, Nor ivory nor gold the Crucifix. mazurka. ..."

6. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"The mazurka was naturalised in Russia after the subjugation of Poland, but the Russian dance ditt'ers from the Polish in ..."

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