The song is a lively mazurka with lyrics penned by Józef Wybicki in Reggio nell ' Emilia, Cisalpine Republic ( now in Italy ), around 16 July 1797, two years after the Third Partition of Poland erased the once vast country from the map.

The polka-mazurka is also another variation of the polka, being in the tempo of a mazurka but danced in a similar manner as the polka.

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.

There are many Polish versions of the mazurek but the most notable one is the mazurka.

In Polish, " mazurka " is actually the genitive and accusative cases of " mazurek.

Arkady reserves the mazurka for Madame Odintsov with whom he is falling in love.

A creolized version of the mazurka is mazouk, which was introduced to the French Caribbean during the 19th century.

In Cape Verde the mazurka is also revered as an important cultural phenomenon played with a violin and accompanied by guitars.

In the Philippines, the mazurka is a popular form of traditional dance.

The Mazurka Boholana is one well-known Filipino mazurka.

Unlike the Polish mazurek, which may have an accent on the second or third beat of a bar, the Irish mazurka ( masúrca in the Irish language ) is consistently accented on the second beat, giving it a unique feel.

Zouk means " party " or " festival " in the local Antillean Creole of French, although the word originally referred to, and is still used to refer to, a popular dance, based on the Polish dance, the mazurka, that was introduced to the French Caribbean in the 19th Century.

The town was being taken over by Polish rebeliants several times e. g. in September 1794 when soldiers of corps of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski entered the town ( Jan Henryk Dąbrowski is the main of few persons mentioned in Polish national anthem-so called Dąbrowski's mazurka ).

One famous Entrée is the opening number of the famous Paquita Grand Pas Classique, in which the lead Ballerina and the corps de ballet perform a mazurka.

The word zouk means " party " or " festival " in the local Antillean Creole of French, although the word originally referred to, and is still used to refer to the mazurka, that was introduced to the French Caribbean in the 19th century.

Chicken scratch dance is based on the " walking two step or the walking polka and the emphasis is on a very smooth gliding movement "; dancers may also perform the mazurka or the chote, though no matter the style, it is always performed counterclockwise.

Anyway, in this part of the composition he makes fun of Frédéric Chopin's Funeral March from his Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor ( by the way calling it a " famous " mazurka by Schubert – now, there is no " famous " mazurka by Schubert: Schubert composed many dances, but no mazurkas – mazurkas are Polish dances: Chopin had been the most famous Polish composer that ever lived in Paris, and he had particularly favoured the composition of mazurkas ... that's the link Satie makes ).

The musicians may also use a lakonmèt ( mazurka ), schottische or polka ; the lakonmèt, also called the mazouk, is especially popular and is the only closed couple dance which originated in Saint Lucia.

The Confections Waltz ( which may have something to do with the refreshments being served ) features nine female soloists and the female corps ; this is followed by a Salon Quadrille for four couples, a mazurka for the stepsisters, and Grete ’ s big solo: the Cinderella Waltz.

The musical score is a series of very short dances in popular modes ( quadrille, waltz, mazurka, polka, etc.

In the French Antilles, the mazurka has become an important style of dance and music.

Polish dance music, especially the mazurka and polonaise, were popularized by Frederick Chopin, and they soon spread across Europe and elsewhere.

* Polka-mazurka-3 / 4-beat dance, musically similar to the mazurka

In Curaçao the mazurka was popular as dance music in the nineteenth century, as well as in the first half of the twentieth century.

In popular folk dancing in France, in recent years ( after roughly 2005 ), the mazurka has evolved into a dance at a more gentle pace ( without the traditional ' hop ' step on the 3rd beat ), allowing for more intimate dancing and giving it the status of a seduction dance.

The music of Sweden shares the tradition of Nordic folk dance music with its neighboring countries in northern Europe, including polka, schottische, waltz, polska and mazurka.

Other popular dance songs in the area include the jota, pasacorredoiras ( pasacalles, Asturian: pasucáis ), and the imported fandango, mazurka, polka, rumba and pasodoble.

Grossly, the indigenous elements are flutes and wooden shakers ; African-influenced baiãos are accompanied with atabaque drums and include overlapping call and response singing ; and European influences include dance music such as the polka, mazurka, schottische, and quadrille, as well as Portuguese contest singing and accompaniment with one or two pandeiros playing the baião rhythm.

The island is known for the Mazurka de Cuyo, a social dance with characteristic mazurka steps.

The mazurka, expressing the idea that the nation of Poland, despite lack of political independence, had not disappeared as long as the Polish people were still alive and fighting in its name, soon became one of the most popular patriotic songs in Poland.

The first of these had the purpose, as Smetana explained to his publisher, of " idealising the polka, as Chopin in his day did with the mazurka.

At the same time, new dances and tunes were imported from Europe, including the fandango, reinlender, waltz, polka and mazurka.

The stylistic and musical characteristics of Chopin's mazurkas differ from the traditional variety because Chopin in effect created a completely separate and new genre of mazurka all his own.

However, while Chopin changed some aspects of the original mazurka, he maintained others.

The mazurka appears frequently in French traditional folk music.

In Swedish folk music, the quaver or eight-note polska has a similar rhythm to the mazurka, and the two dances have a common origin.

In Portugal the mazurka became one of the most popular traditional European dances through the first years of the annual Andanças, a traditional dances festival held nearby São Pedro do Sul.

In Brazil, the composer Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote a mazurka for classical guitar in a similar musical style to Polish mazurkas.

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But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

Let me quote him even more fully, for his analysis is important to my theme.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.

But in looking at Faulkner against his background in Mississippi and the South, it is important not to lose the broader perspective.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

Clearly what the person brings to the reading is important.

Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.

Here an important caveat is in order.

It is most important that we recognize the law of love as being unbreakable in all personal relationships, whether individually, socially or as between whole nations of people.

This truth that the moral law is natural has other important corollaries.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.