Perhaps, Mr Wilmerdings, you will favour us with that delicious Polonaise of Chopin's," said Lady Hammergallow.
Footnote 225: For an account of its origin see the chapter in Huneker's book and the article on the Polonaise in Grove's Dictionary.
While in Germany, Kelley wrote a brilliant and highly successful concert polonaise for four hands, and a composition for strings.
The next year he gave a concert of his own works, and the same year, 1889, Van der Stucken produced his violin romance and polonaise for violin and orchestra at the Paris Exposition.
She couldn't have told you what the Polonaise was like or what it did to her; all that she could have said was that it went through and through her.
When it ceased there rose from the piano that was its grave the Grande Polonaise of Chopin.
Tortured out of all knowledge, the Grande Polonaise screamed and writhed in its agony.
On a September evening the Vicar was snug enough in his cell; and before the Grande Polonaise had burst in upon him he had been at peace with God and man.
All morning the little Erad piano shook with the Grande Valse and the Grande Polonaise of Chopin.
He was inclined rather to the manly course of ignoring the Grande Polonaise altogether.
It was in the last three weeks that the Polonaise had found her out and had begun to go through and through her, till it was more than she could bear.
Now and then, when the Polonaise screamed louder, Mary drew a hissing breath of pain through her locked teeth, and Gwenda grinned.
Now, oddly enough, the Grande Polonaise had set Mr. Cartaret thinking of Robina.
Through the screaming of the Polonaise Essy listened for the opening of the study door.
She couldn't fling herself on to a Polonaise of a Sonata any more than she could lie on a couch all day and look at her own white hands and dream.
Well, this girl; his Royal Highness very kindly made the Crown Prince walk the Polonaise with her; very kind of him, and very proper.
The Polonaiseis a dignified promenade, with which German balls invariably commence.
To the surprise of the whole room and the indignation of main of the high nobles, the Crown Prince of Reisenburg led off the Polonaisewith the unknown fair one.
The Crown Prince was so kind as to walk the Polonaisewith her.
But again with smothered explosions thePolonaise proper appears, and all ends in gloom and the impotent clanking of chains.
On this the Polonaise closes, an odd ending for such a fiery opening.
A fac-simile reproduction of a hitherto unpublished Polonaise in A flat, written at the age of eleven, is also included in this unique number.
In the court of Henry of Anjou, in 1574, after his election to the Polish throne, the Polonaisewas born, and throve in the hardy, warlike atmosphere.
This list includes the Polonaise for violoncello and piano, op.
The ending of thisPolonaise is triumphant, recalling in key and climaxing the A flat Ballade.
Follow Kleczynski's advice and do not sacrifice the Polonaise to the octaves.
Chopin was born too late, and left his native hearth too early, to be initiated into the original character of the Polonaise as danced through his own observation.
This Polonaise at no time exhibits the solidity of its two predecessors; its plasticity defies the imprint of the conventional Polonaise, though we ever feel its rhythms.
He played the octaves in the A flat Polonaise with infinite ease but pianissimo.
For a generation accustomed to the realism of Richard Strauss, the Fantaisie-Polonaise seems vaporous and idealistic, withal new.
The Polonaise is in three-four time, with the accent on the second beat of the bar.
The C minorPolonaise of the same set is a noble, troubled composition, large in accents and deeply felt.
This, according to Niecks, was the only time he played the Polonaise with orchestral accompaniment.
In the development of the Polonaise everything co-operated which specifically distinguished the nation from others.
Yet I cannot truthfully say thePolonaise sounds so characteristic as when played solo.
Brilliant red is a warlike color, and finds analogous expression in such pieces as Chopin's Polonaise Militaire, and MacDowell's Polonaise.
A young and robust pianist had been playing Chopin's "Polonaise Militaire" to the composer, and had broken a string.
The Polonaise in B flat minor, 'Adieu an Wilhelm Kolberg,' appears to have been written on Chopin's departure for Reinerz in 1826.
But the second Liszt Polonaise in C minor is the more poetic of the pair; possibly that is the reason why it is so seldom played.
To hear him in a Chopin polonaise is to realise his limitations.
The first in E is a perennial favourite; I always hear its martial theme as a pattern reversed of the first theme in the A-flat Polonaise of Chopin.
We hadn't more than got to the Soldier's Home grounds before some boys who were playing tag grabbed hold of my girl's crushed-strawberry polonaise and ripped it off.
The published work is a short movement in C in two divisions, having a broad theme of a festal character, Andante maestoso andPolonaise rhythm.
Miss Lucas's bill for this year contained the two following little items:-- Rich gros de cecile polonaise and jacket to match, trimmed with Chantilly lace and valenciennes .
Polonaise and jacket trimmed with lace-- material part found .
After the Chopin Polonaise Colonne was astonished, and said he would engage him next year and do 'les choses en grand.
A number of the brilliant officers of this division were necessarily present at the coronation ceremony when the polonaise form originated, and these with their exploits Chopin endeavors to introduce by means of this singular passage.
A flat, is in my opinion decidedly the best, both as regards virile power and direct, forceful expression of the original polonaise idea.
In the present day the polonaise is a universally accepted musical form, common property with the composers of all nations.
Damrosch, your successor, has composed a quite remarkable Violin Concerto with a Polonaise Finale, with which you will be pleased.
Play them your Polonaise and Ballade, and let me hear, later on, how their very small knowledge of music is going on.
In fact, we shall belong to the squirearchy," cried Stella, crashing down upon the piano with the first bars of Chopin's most exciting Polonaise and from the Polonaise going off into an absurd impromptu recitative.
Sometimes old dance forms are used, and sometimes new, such as the polonaise and the waltz.
Tradition assigns to thepolonaise the following origin.
In the slow sweeping measure of the polonaise there is much stateliness and gravity, and the turnings and changes seem like the echo of the murmurs from the active life of the old Polish nobility.
I intended to write a polonaise with orchestral accompaniment; but have only sketched it out in my head; when it will see the light I cannot say.
The majestic A flat major polonaise was composed in 1840 after Chopin's return from Majorca.
I leave a Polonaise for the Violoncello with Mechetti.
I shall select Hummel's "La Sentinelle," and shall finish with my polonaise with violoncello, to which I have written an Adagio by way of introduction.
For example, the first polonaise (C sharp minor) not only has a melody of uncommon beauty, but there is also a rare depth of character in the apparently bold incoherent themes with which the work begins.
As soon as the polonaise was finished, and the couples had made each other low bows, once more the women formed little groups by themselves, and the men by themselves.
The polonaise breathes and paints the whole national character; the music of this dance, while admitting much art, combines something martial with a sweetness marked by the simplicity of manners of an agricultural people.
There is also a healthy vigour, which, for instance, in the A major Polonaise assumes a brilliantly-heroic form.
We look in vain for beauty of melody and harmony; dreary unisons, querulous melodic phrases, hollow-eyed chords, hard progressions and modulations throughout every part of the polonaise proper.
After this Brodzinski goes on to describe the way in which the polonaise used to be danced.
Karasowski says that the polonaisein question is the last- mentioned one, in A flat major; but from M.
Huitieme Polonaise (A flat major), dedicated to Mr. A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polonaise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
