mazurka

How To Use mazurka In A Sentence

• Oh, yes, I had three waltzes, the second quadrille and the mazurka, and he is ever so courteous, and kind, and gentlemanly!
• The Home circle: a collection of piano-forte music consisting of the most favorite marches, waltzes, polkas, redowas, schottisches, galops, mazurkas, quadrilles, dances, etc.
• I would recommend Vladimir Horowitz's recordings of the études and mazurkas, Artur Rubinstein's recordings of the polonaises and concertos, and Luiz de Moura-Castro's recordings of the ‘Ballade in G minor’ and the nocturnes.
• HUIZENGA: So this particular mazurka, it starts out with a very identifiable theme, and it's fine, and you think you know where it's going. Chopin With A Polish Touch
• But many Poles hold on to him as a very special person, a very special musician whose music really says Poland, especially when he took different forms, Polish dances, like the mazurka, and took a rustic dance and made high art out of it. Chopin With A Polish Touch
• It is notorious that many of the leases of new dwelling-houses contain a clause against dancing, lest the premises should suffer from a mazurka, tremble at a gallopade, or fall prostrate under the inflictions of "the parson's farewell," or "the wind that shakes the barley. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
• Sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom Natasha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas de chale, but at this last ball only the ecossaise, the anglaise, and the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. War and Peace
• The recital consists of essentially triple-time dance music - mazurkas, waltzes, and polonaises - although you might find it difficult to trip the light fantastic to any of this.
• The mazurka part is how the poem 'turns' on its one-word lines, all of them adjectives. John Seed: Mazurki: The Multiple Meanings of a Philip Guston Drawing
• You had Polish dance tunes like krakowiak, oberek, no wesloo, mazur, and polonez and of course polkas and mazurkas and waltzes.