polonaise
/pol-uh-neyz, poh-luh-/US // ˌpɒl əˈneɪz, ˌpoʊ lə- //UK // (ˌpɒləˈneɪz) //
波兰语,波兰,波兰文,波兰的
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a slow dance of Polish origin, in triple meter, consisting chiefly of a march or promenade in couples.
- : a piece of music for, or in the rhythm of, such a dance.
- : Also pol·o·nese [pol-uh-neez, -nees, poh-luh-]. /ˌpɒl əˈniz, -ˈnis, ˌpoʊ lə-/. a coatlike outer dress, combining bodice and cutaway overskirt, worn in the late 18th century over a separate skirt.
Examples
More of the Chopinesque than in the Polonaise may be discovered in the Introduction, which was less of a piece d'occasion.
The A flat major Polonaise (Op. 53), for instance, he could not thunder forth in the way we are accustomed to hear it.
There is also a healthy vigour, which, for instance, in the A major Polonaise assumes a brilliantly-heroic form.
My cheval de bataille was the Polonaise from Mignon, at the end of which I had introduced some chromatic trills.
Taken as a whole, Felina was a successful part for me; largely on account of that piece of glittering generalities, the Polonaise.
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