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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...
- playing". Suggested examples illustrating Hofmann's style: Rubinstein's Contradanses Chopin's Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Op.22 Chopin's Ballade...
- 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...
- 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...
- native po****tions. Tango is influenced by Andalusian flamenco, Spanish contradanse, southern Italian melodies, Cuban habanera, African candombe and percussion...
- 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...
- 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...