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csárdás
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csárdás

A Hungarian dance consisting of a slow movement called lassú and a quick one called friss.



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Each of the 12 parts, including some sung by mezzo Susana Poretsky, varied in tone and dynamic, at times evoking Philip Glass, a czardas, Stravinsky, a mass.
The folk dances finding their accompaniment to this music--the Hungarian czardas, the Polish mazurka, the German waltz, the Russian trepak, and even English Morris dancing--have a recognizably formalized shape.
He would rise sharply into a fifth sous-sus to explode into a buoyant jump, peppered with the gigue, czardas, or mazurka of his beloved character dance.
 
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