Krakowiak

The pianist again struck the keys and Wolska and her partner began to sing together some comic couplets, interwoven with a kind of "Krakowiak" which they danced in

Komediantka. English W��adys��aw Stanis��aw Reymont 1896

Mazurek is only a kind of Krakowiak, "less lively, less sautillant."

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

Chopin has only once been inspired by the krakowiak ” namely, in his Op. 14, entitled Krakowiak, Grand Rondeau de Concert, a composition which was discussed in Chapter VIII.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

During the Second and Third Aliyah periods, between 1904 and 1923, the halutzim danced only dances that they had brought with them from the Diaspora — the Horah, Polka, Krakowiak, Czerkassiya and Rondo, with the Horah becoming the national dance.

Folk Dance, Israeli. 2009

Peter Krakowiak, 45, self-employed carpenter in Kailua, wanted to give the president four more years.

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A little later, from one of the wooden houses dating from the colonial period, we heard the strains of a Polish dance which must have been the rage at the time, a courtly Krakowiak hammered out on an old piano, full of crystalline runs with missing notes.

An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

This time he played the Krakowiak and his talent for composition was discussed by the newspapers.

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

A week later, spurred by adverse and favorable criticism, he gave a second concert, playing the same excerpts from this concerto -- the slow movement is Constance Gladowska musically idealized -- the Krakowiak and an improvisation.

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

The Krakowiak produced an immense effect, and was followed by four volleys of applause.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

We learn that the score of the Krakowiak was finished by December 27, 1828, and find the introduction described as having "as funny an appearance as himself in his pilot-cloth overcoat."

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888