One of 58 Chopin compositions

Usage examples of mazurka.

Natasha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas de chale, but at this last ball only the ecossaise, the anglaise, and the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced.

Denisov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself with his handkerchief, sat down by Natasha and did not leave her for the rest of the evening.

Helene, not having a suitable partner, herself offered to dance the mazurka with Boris.

As the mazurka began, Boris saw that Adjutant General Balashev, one of those in closest attendance on the Emperor, went up to him and contrary to court etiquette stood near him while he was talking to a Polish lady.

All the time Boris was going through the figures of the mazurka, he was worried by the question of what news Balashev had brought and how he could find it out before others.

A disgusting engineer named Anisimov robbed me of the mazurka with her--to this day I cannot forgive him.

I was not nominally her partner for the mazurka, I did as a matter of fact dance nearly the whole time with her.

The musicians kept playing the same mazurka tunes over and over again in desperate exhaustion--you know what it is towards the end of a ball.

I chose her again for the mazurka, and for the hundredth time we danced across the room.

My heart had been full of song, and I had heard in imagination the tune of the mazurka, but this was very harsh music.

I showed them the polka and the mazurka, which instantly became popular.

Okoitz had never heard of a polka or a mazurka, let alone a waltz, but people contented themselves with enthusiastically jumping up and down.

He could dance a dozen new steps, and I thrilled to be in his arms for his waltz, his mazurka, and his polka.

The piano at the foot of the staircase clanged through a mazurka with brazen impetuosity, as though a vulgar and impudent ghost were showing off.

The mazurka came to an end, and already some of the guests were saying good-bye to Grandmamma.