It was not surprizing that under the influence of the waltz and the Circassian circle and the schottische and the quadrille and the mazurka that Michael should fall in love.
Then he and Muriel walked demurely back to join the tinkling mazurka down below and, though many enquiries were set on foot as to the perpetrator of the outrage, Michael was never found out.
He had the greatest desire to speak to her about Elena, to question her, to reassure himself; but the orchestra struck up a languorous mazurka and the Florentine countess was carried off by her partner.
The postilion mazurka was now greatly enlivening the ball.
Over his head, they suddenly burst into the opening notes of the postilion mazurka from the ballet 'Excelsior,' which was highly popular that winter.
One Chopin Mazurka contains more music than all of the rhapsodies, which I firmly contend are but overdressed pretenders to Magyar blood.
In this mazurkathere is dancing, singing, gesticulating.
Nevertheless, when the strains of the mazurka struck up, and, reseating himself beside his partner, he prepared to enter into conversation with her, he felt a distinct touch of diffidence.
But soon the mazurka began to draw to a close, and Arkady found himself regretting the prospect of losing the companion with whom he had spent such a pleasant hour.
This woman Paul Petrovitch met at a ball; and at it he danced a mazurka with her.
Arkady therefore plunged into a discourse on Bazarov of the same ardour and the same enthusiasm as he had displayed on the night of the mazurka with Madame Odintsov.
However, Chichikov slipped past the mazurka dancers, and, almost treading on their heels, made his way towards the spot where Madame and her daughter were seated.
Mr. Pauer naturally concludes that Mr. Gotthard had been deceived, that the manuscript was not a genuine autograph, and 'that the honour of having composed the mazurka in question belongs to Charles Mayer.
On the other hand, we learn from the same letter that he composed at Palma the sad, yearning Mazurka in E minor (No.
He played the mazurka several times, counted aloud, stamped time with his foot, was beside himself.
The mazurka movement and the augmented fourth degree of the scale (Nos.
Now the mazurka is generally written in 3/4-time; Chopin's are all written thus.
For completeness' sake I shall preface the description of the mazurka by a short one of the krakowiak, the third of the triad of principal Polish dances.
It came out after his death, it is a kind of waltz-mazurka [the Valse, Op.
Two things in connection with this album may yet be mentioned--namely, that Mereaux contributed to it a Fantasia on a mazurka by Chopin, and that Stephen Heller reviewed it in the Gazette musicale.
We also find in the Mazurka frequent indications for the use of the so-called "tempo rubato," a proper conception of which is so essential in the performance of Chopin's music.
Chopin's briefest mazurka is worth infinitely more than many sonatas that cover many pages.
A Mazurkaor two will add zest to any group of his works on a recital program.
She longed to renew the interrupted conversation, but the mazurka came to an end, and shortly afterwards the old Countess took her departure.
But nothing amazed me so much as the announcement on the play bill of a small theatre that the mazurka "Dabrowski, Poland is not lost yet," would be performed during the entr'actes.
The gloomy colouring and wildly defiant character of the chief theme are suddenly interrupted by a charming intermezzo in the mazurka style.
Such are the waltzes in A minor and C sharp minor, the latter inclining in the third and fourth bar to the mazurka measure, for which Chopin always showed a preference.
He who penetrates so deeply into the psychology of his own people, finds no better characterisation of the Polish temperament than the use of the polacca or mazurka rhythms.
In the polonaise and especially in the sombre and sinister mazurka in A Life for the Tsar Glinka obtains from local rhythms an intimate dramatic emotion.
The polonaise, cracoviak, the valse in 6-8 time and the mazurka and finale which form the ballet are somewhat ordinary in character, but presented with a charm and piquancy of orchestration which has made them extremely popular.
Marina's solo takes this form, and again in the duet by the fountain we are pursued by the eternal mazurka rhythm.
The same pleasant excitement with which he had earlier in the evening danced the mazurka and listened to the music was now mastering him again and rousing a multitude of thoughts.
A black-haired officer with prominent eyes and Tartar cheekbones danced the mazurka with Anna Pavlovna.
During the mazurka the tax-collector's face twitched with spite.
In short, the fun was fast and furious, and waltz followed polka and mazurka followed waltz with a rapidity which weeded out the weaker vessels among the dancers and tested the stamina of the musicians.
After which he donned a long purple dressing-gown and a smoking-cap, in which garb he performed the first steps of a mazurka as a sign of the additional ease which he experienced.
Pavel Petrovitch met her at a ball, danced a mazurka with her, in the course of which she did not utter a single rational word, and fell passionately in love with her.
Arkady began to tell his tale, and to talk of Bazarov with even greater warmth, even greater enthusiasm than he had done on the evening when he danced a mazurka with Madame Odintsov.
She stayed later than any one at the ball, and at four o'clock in the morning she was dancing a polka-mazurka with Sitnikov in the Parisian style.
About a Mazurka in F sharp major, published under Chopin's name by J.
When after the scene about the rhythm of a mazurka Chopin had left the room, Lenz introduced himself to Meyerbeer as a friend of the Counts Wielhorski, of St. Petersburg.
The mazurka over, he began to think that Valentina would not come.
The hall was named Mazurka hall, and all of the swell entertainments of the early '50s took place in this old building.
The mazurka came to an end, and already some of the guests were saying good-bye to Grandmamma.
Batonnin to Monleard, as Fanny whirled by them, dancing the mazurka with a partner who guided her perfectly and executed some novel steps.
I was admiring Madame Monleard's dancing--she's dancing the mazurka at this moment; there they go again!
She felt sure she would dance the mazurkawith him as she had done at former balls, and refused five young men, saying she was engaged for the mazurka.
Yes, Stiva told me you danced the mazurka with him, and that he.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mazurka" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
