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  1. Mazurka
    The mazurka is a national dance which derives its name from Mazovia in Poland where it originated. It is sometimes accompanied by singing, and its music is usually in 3/4 or 3/8 time. The peculiar rhythm of the mazurka was much used by Chopin and by Wieniawski.
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  2. Mazurka
    [disambiguation] Mazurka is a Polish folk dance in triple meter. Mazurka may also refer to: ...
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  3. Mazurka
    The mazurka (in Polish, mazurek) is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with accent on the second or third beat. ==History== The folk origins of the mazurek are two other Polish musical forms—the slow machine kujawiak, and the fast oberek. The mazurek is always fou...
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  4. mazurka
    [n] - music composed for dancing the mazurka 2. [n] - a Polish national dance in triple time
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  5. Mazurka
    A type of Polish folk dance.
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  6. mazurka
    noun a Polish national dance in triple time
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  7. mazurka
    noun music composed for dancing the mazurka
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  1. Mazurka
    • (n.) A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat.
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  2. mazurka
    Polish folk dance for a circle of couples, characterized by stamping feet and clicking heels and traditionally danced to the music of bagpipes. The ... [1 related articles]
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  3. mazurka
    mazurka (muzûr'ku, –zoor'–) , Polish national dance that spread to England and the United States at the beginning of the 19th cent. Danced by four or eight couples and characterized by stamping of the feet and clicking of the heels, it is in moderate triple meter and permits...
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  4. mazurka
    Any of a family of traditional Polish dances from the 16th century, characterized by foot-stamping and heel-clicking, together with a turning movement. The music for the mazurka is in triple time (3/4), with dotted rhythms and the accentuation of weak beats, on which phrases also begin and end. It i...
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  5. Mazurka
    [film] Mazurka is a 1935 German drama film directed by Willi Forst and starring Pola Negri, Albrecht Schoenhals and Ingeborg Theek. A woman is put on trial for murdering a dancer who ruined her marriage. It takes its name from The Mazurka. ...
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  6. mazurka
    a moderately fast Polish country dance in triple meter in which the accent is shifted to the weak beats.
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  7. mazurka
    1) A polish dance piece for piano 2) Ballroom music 3) Dance music 4) Danceroom music 5) Pole dance? 6) Polish national anthem, e.g.
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