This is the Poland poet Mickiewicz's poem "to the Poland mother". Most of the people of Poland can sympathize with you, in modern history, Poland has on several occasions subjugation, three times by the strong adjacent partition, up to 123 years disappeared on the map, even the Poland capital Warsaw, the little mermaid statue is "holding a sword in one hand and a shield," fairy tale, with different.
The original Mazurka from folk, also expressed the life demands of the bottom of the Poland
Also in Poland, rich and colorful, rich style of the mazurka popular time, wantonly in folk growth.
Fight dance
Mazurka in Poland is a native dance. "Mazur" is a tribe of ancient Poland, they live in the Baltic Mazovia region, tribal people of all ages and both sexes are good at singing and dancing, especially good at jumping a men and women dance in pairs. This kind of dance movements are sliding, rotating around a woman's pairs, dance etc.. Later, it spread to Poland, people call it "mazurkas".
Mazurka steps special rhythm for beginners is more difficult to grasp, need to go through a period of practice, to the various movements and patterns together cleverly. In the ballet "Swan Lake" of the third act, Poland guests for the prince offered a wonderful "Mazurkas" Dance - eight men and women on the beat, in the lead, do all kinds of tricks, changing all the steps, filled with exotic nightlife. Even professional dancers, to achieve such a state, also need long time practice.
See things in a blur of the dance is certainly exciting, but if you talk about the real essence, it can not fail to mention Mazurka dance, medium three beat music rhythm, stress changes, to fall on the second, take three more common, feeling lively and warm. Therefore, with the music and dance are men and women double, male dancers dance figure, choice of action, constantly changing step speed; he was arrogant, with a soldier like an apollo. Female dancers in a graceful posture, by a male partner led, ran lightly dance on the dance floor, dance movements have sliding, heel bruise, woman around a running man.
Since eighteenth Century in Europe spread so far, Mazurka is ballet directors as the material used in the ballet, become a dance schools of the world required in the teaching of a folk dance. Now appear in the ballet "Mazurkas" dance, dance has evolved into distinct rhythm, bold casual, temperament elegant, and more stage performance form ornamental, spread and the original folk "Mazurkas" has the very big difference.
In the mazurka complex species initially, there is also a popular in Poland in southern Krakow Kelakeweiya dance (Kelakeweiyake), music to two beat, spring, and full of jumping rhythm. Steps to riding like across the step as the main character, the man from time to time to do some jumping, the air strike leg skill action; women's movement is gentle, in contrast with man's masculinity. And in the hopper Chino area Ao don't Lek dance (Aobielieke), also known as characteristic skill performance, such as rapid rotation, lift, turn, jump rope, fast action and lively, full of pride and enthusiasm.
At the end of the eighteenth Century, along with the features and styles of Mazurka gradually formed its inherent, Poland is in a painful changes gradually formed a feudal kingdom. Even if still lingering in fifteenth Century the brilliant ancient culture in late eighteenth Century, Poland is surrounded by pain: by Russia, Prussia and Austria three partition; established in 1918 by Hitler after the invasion of the Republic, until 1945 before the establishment of the national unity government. So, in the history of the Poland River, the cheerful, frank and firm and indomitable character, bit by bit into the mazurka.
And Poland dance reflects the nobility of life are not the same, and the pain of the mazurka is reflected in the bottom of the Poland people's life. They will be poor and desperate aside, on the country road, on the stone square dance. All the rage, all compassion, all grief, all vent to simple and joyful dance.
Through the dance, the people of Poland on the fate and life struggle became soft and tough, not hysterical, nor jade and stone burned together. Perhaps such resistance is more powerful at least Poland people know they want to what kind of goodness and dance.
Sorrow is minor
Mazurka dance and dance, also mostly reflects the struggle and yearning for freedom. And with a nation's unique - whether flourishing or feeble - inadvertently revealed his sadness.
Mazurka is different with the Poland dance, Poland dance style is elegant, as early as the sixteenth Century it became palace celebration of music. While the mazurka until the beginning of nineteenth Century, is a new form of music. It has helped in Europe, is inseparable from the musicians. Chopin, Glinka, Alexander, Borodin, Debussy all wrote a Mazurka music, now in the Poland National Anthem "Poland did not perish" is a song of mazurkas.
Poland folk music has a characteristic in the speed: one is the music of the speeds up in the process, so some people say that Poland folk song "the speed of a bar is a kind"; two is the use of random velocity. The so-called "free speed", is not random, but advance to elaborate arrangements. Playing, singing to slow down, but at the end of this section, speed and "find" back, although it sounds a slow is fast, but in fact the whole song speed is very accurate and balanced.
Mazurka dance has strong Slavic color, like many Eastern origin of music, sometimes stress is dispersed. Emotional lively and warm, the rhythm of a typical. The rhythm is also very special, the first section of the first part is usually faster tempo. Dance, crude humor, intoxicating, poetic, but the biggest characteristics of sorrow. Poland people prefer to use the minor mode, even in the most happy when they are singing the sad songs.
Mazurka propagation, is inseparable from the efforts of Poland musicians, they try to use dozens of different methods to break the conventional, change the rhythm, the heavy clumsy country dance to poetry height. It is praiseworthy for one's excellent conduct, this idealized and did not let the musicians discarded Mazurka original flavor. Mazurka despite a change unpredictably camouflage, but it is really like and Polonaises, with Poland style of music. With the continuous development, Mazurka in concert, and early the majestic and grand Poland palace life to show in front of people, reminiscent of the nation once the glory.
From the mazurka dance costumes can be seen lingering and pride - those of traditional Warsaw dress on the past glory of the people, by the specialized craftsmen tedious process and long time of handmade. Usually girls dress consists of 10 parts, light skirt for 5 layers of overlapping and Boys Dress waist; a ring buckle, dance will be issued when the unique sound. Different ornament represent different religious beliefs. Female dancers wearing the most beautiful dress sometimes weighs 18 kilograms, while the male dancer lifts the female dancers need to spend a lot of effort.
The former president of Poland, Paderewski had a word, "Matthew Scandinavian country dance, rich Nocturne, lively dance music of Krakow, the mystery of the prelude, bright Poland dance, huge amazing etudes, stormy epic ballads......" He knows everything, he can feel everything, because everything belongs to him, everything is Poland.