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England as For the
Further Improvement of Dancing. By the 1720s the term
contradanse had come to
refer to
longways sets
divided into
groups of
three or two...
- The Écossaise (in French, "Scottish") is a
musical form and a type of
contradanse in a
Scottish style – a
Scottish country dance at
least in name – that...
- criolla, or habanera) is the
Spanish and Spanish-American
version of the
contradanse,
which was an
internationally po****r
style of
music and
dance in the...
- each of the
three groups playing in its own
metre (a 3/4 minuet, a 2/4
contradanse and a fast 3/8
peasant dance),
accompanying the
dancing of the prin****l...
-
characterized by a rapid,
galloping rhythm and strong,
accented beats.
Contradanse – Folk
dance originating in
England and
France featuring repeated execution...
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native po****tions.
Tango is
influenced by
Andalusian flamenco,
Spanish contradanse,
southern Italian melodies,
Cuban habanera,
African candombe and percussion...
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heavily creolized music forms in Haiti.
European dance forms such as the
contradanse (kontradans), quadrille, waltz, and
polka were
introduced to
white planter...
- ****ociated with
tango Stylistic origins Polka contradanza flamenco mazurka contradanse other European music styles candombe Peruvian waltz milonga Cultural...
- playing".
Suggested examples illustrating Hofmann's style: Rubinstein's
Contradanses Chopin's
Andante Spianato and
Grande Polonaise Op.22 Chopin's Ballade...
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developed first as the
English country dance, and then as the
French contradanse. The
origin of the word is a
corruption of the
English term "country...
