mazurka
noun
a lively Polish dance in moderately quick triple meter.
mazourka
-
a variation of
mazurka.
Example Sentences
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The polka redowa and the polka mazourka are modifications of this step to different times.
From Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Cracovienne′, a graceful Polish dance, resembling the mazourka: the music for such; Crac′owe, a long-toed boot fashionable under Richard II.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Even when you can get through the mazourka tolerably well, you must not think, on that account, that you will be able to play it in company, under trying circumstances.
From Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances by Mary P. Nichols
To her the Pyramids and Niagara, a tropical thunderstorm, a mazourka by Chopin, and a Parisian bonnet, were all alike charming.
From The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Now do play at once the F sharp minor mazourka, opus 6.
From Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances by Mary P. Nichols
